Relative generic singularities of the exponential map
Relative property (T) has recently been used to show the existence of a variety of new rigidity phenomena, for example in von Neumann algebras and the study of orbit-equivalence relations. However, until recently there were few examples of group pairs with relative property (T) available through the literature. This motivated the following result: A finitely generated group admits a special linear representation with non-amenable -Zariski closure if and only if it acts on an Abelian group (of...
We describe the natural framework in which the relative spectral theory is developed. We give some results and indicate how they relate to two open problems in ergodic theory. We also compute the relative entropy of gaussian extensions of ergodic transformations.
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We show that repelling periodic points are landing points of periodic rays for exponential maps whose singular value has bounded orbit. For polynomials with connected Julia sets, this is a celebrated theorem by Douady, for which we present a new proof. In both cases we also show that points in hyperbolic sets are accessible by at least one and at most finitely many rays. For exponentials this allows us to conclude that the singular value itself is accessible.