Almost-Topological Representation Theorems for Dynamical Systems.
We give a sufficient condition for the construction of Markov fibred systems using countable Markov partitions with locally bounded distortion.
For a class of quadratic polynomial endomorphisms close to the standard torus map , we show that the Julia set J(f) is homeomorphic to the torus. We identify J(f) as the closure ℛ of the set of repelling periodic points and as the Shilov boundary of the set K(f) of points with bounded forward orbit. Moreover, it turns out that (J(f),f) is a mixing repeller and supports a measure of maximal entropy for f which is uniquely determined as the harmonic measure for K(f).
Fibre expanding systems have been introduced by Denker and Gordin. Here we show the existence of a finite partition for such systems which is fibrewise a Markov partition. Such partitions have direct applications to the Abramov-Rokhlin formula for relative entropy and certain polynomial endomorphisms of ℂ².
We define thin equivalence relations ∼ on shift spaces and derive Dirichlet forms on the quotient space in terms of the nearest neighbour averaging operator. We identify the associated Laplace operator. The conditions are applied to some non-self-similar extensions of the Sierpiński gasket.
We show that the set of conical points of a rational function of the Riemann sphere supports at most one conformal measure. We then study the problem of existence of such measures and their ergodic properties by constructing Markov partitions on increasing subsets of sets of conical points and by applying ideas of the thermodynamic formalism.
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