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We prove that for the spectral radius of a weighted composition operator $a{T}_{\alpha }$, acting in the space $L^p(X,,\mu )$, the following variational principle holds: $lnr\left(a{T}_{\alpha }\right)=ma{x}_{\nu \in M{¹}_{\alpha ,e}}{\int }_{X}ln\left|a\right|d\nu$, where X is a Hausdorff compact space, α: X → X is a continuous mapping preserving a Borel measure μ with suppμ = X, $M{¹}_{\alpha ,e}$ is the set of all α-invariant ergodic probability measures on X, and a: X → ℝ is a continuous and ${}_{\infty }$-measurable function, where ${}_{\infty }={\bigcap }_{n=0}^{\infty }{\alpha }^{-n}\left(\right)$. This considerably extends the range of validity of the above formula, which was previously known in the case...

We consider operators acting in the space C(X) (X is a compact topological space) of the form $Au\left(x\right)=\left({\sum }_{k=1}^N{e}^{{\phi }_k}{T}_{{\alpha }_k}\right)u\left(x\right)={\sum }_{k=1}^N{e}^{{\phi }_k\left(x\right)}u\left({\alpha }_k\left(x\right)\right)$, u ∈ C(X), where ${\phi }_k\in C\left(X\right)$ and ${\alpha }_k:X\to X$ are given continuous mappings (1 ≤ k ≤ N). A new formula on the logarithm of the spectral radius r(A) is obtained. The logarithm of r(A) is defined as a nonlinear functional λ depending on the vector of functions $\phi ={\left({\phi }_k\right)}_{k=1}^N$. We prove that $ln\left(r\left(A\right)\right)=\lambda \left(\phi \right)=ma{x}_{\nu \in Mes}{\sum }_{k=1}^N{\int }_X{\phi }_{k}d{\nu }_k-\lambda *\left(\nu \right)$, where Mes is the set of all probability vectors of measures $\nu ={\left({\nu }_k\right)}_{k=1}^N$ on X × 1,..., N and λ* is some convex lower-semicontinuous functional on $\left(C^N\left(X\right)\right)*$. In other...