2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/158687We prove that if a system has superpolynomial (faster than any power law) decay of correlations then the time $τ_{r}(x,x_{0})$ needed for a typical point $x$ to enter for the first time a ball $B(x_{0},r)$ centered in $x_{0},$ with small radius $r$ scales as the local dimension at $x_{0},$ i.e. $$\underset{r\to 0}{\lim}\frac{\log τ_{r}(x,x_{0})}{-\log r}=d_{μ}(x_{0}).$$Revised version, very similar to the one is publishedDynamical Systems37A25, 37C45Dimension and waiting time in rapidly mixing systemstext