American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Advanced
January  2010, 26(1): 347-363. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2010.26.347

Distortion and entropy for automorphisms of free groups

Richard Sharp 1,

1. 

University of Manchester, School of Mathematics, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom

Received  June 2008 Revised  August 2008 Published  October 2009

Recently, several numerical invariants have been introduced to characterize the distortion induced by automorphisms of a free group. We unify these by interpreting them in terms of an entropy function of a kind familiar in thermodynamic ergodic theory. We draw an analogy between this approach and the Manhattan curve associated to a pair of hyperbolic surfaces.
Keywords: entropy., subshifts of finite typ, automorphisms, distortion spectrum, thermodynamic formalism, Free groups.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 20F65, 20F67, 20F69, 37C35, 37D35; Secondary: 20E05, 37C3.
Citation: Richard Sharp. Distortion and entropy for automorphisms of free groups. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2010, 26 (1) : 347-363. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2010.26.347
[1]

Thierry Coulbois. Fractal trees for irreducible automorphisms of free groups. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2010, 4 (2) : 359-391. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2010.4.359
[2]

Christopher Hoffman. Subshifts of finite type which have completely positive entropy. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2011, 29 (4) : 1497-1516. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.29.1497
[3]

Światosław R. Gal, Jarek Kędra. On distortion in groups of homeomorphisms. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2011, 5 (3) : 609-622. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2011.5.609
[4]

Vaughn Climenhaga. A note on two approaches to the thermodynamic formalism. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2010, 27 (3) : 995-1005. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2010.27.995
[5]

Yakov Pesin. On the work of Sarig on countable Markov chains and thermodynamic formalism. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2014, 8 (1) : 1-14. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2014.8.1
[6]

Manfred Denker, Yuri Kifer, Manuel Stadlbauer. Thermodynamic formalism for random countable Markov shifts. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2008, 22 (1&2) : 131-164. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2008.22.131
[7]

Yongluo Cao, De-Jun Feng, Wen Huang. The thermodynamic formalism for sub-additive potentials. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2008, 20 (3) : 639-657. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2008.20.639
[8]

Anna Mummert. The thermodynamic formalism for almost-additive sequences. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2006, 16 (2) : 435-454. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2006.16.435
[9]

Luis Barreira. Nonadditive thermodynamic formalism: Equilibrium and Gibbs measures. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2006, 16 (2) : 279-305. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2006.16.279
[10]

Manfred Denker, Yuri Kifer, Manuel Stadlbauer. Corrigendum to: Thermodynamic formalism for random countable Markov shifts. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2015, 35 (1) : 593-594. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.593
[11]

Michael Jakobson, Lucia D. Simonelli. Countable Markov partitions suitable for thermodynamic formalism. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2018, 13: 199-219. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2018018
[12]

G. Mashevitzky, B. Plotkin and E. Plotkin. Automorphisms of categories of free algebras of varieties. Electronic Research Announcements, 2002, 8: 1-10.

[13]

Gerhard Keller. Stability index, uncertainty exponent, and thermodynamic formalism for intermingled basins of chaotic attractors. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2017, 10 (2) : 313-334. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2017015
[14]

Renaud Leplaideur. From local to global equilibrium states: Thermodynamic formalism via an inducing scheme. Electronic Research Announcements, 2014, 21: 72-79. doi: 10.3934/era.2014.21.72
[15]

Eugen Mihailescu. Applications of thermodynamic formalism in complex dynamics on $\mathbb{P}^2$. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2001, 7 (4) : 821-836. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2001.7.821
[16]

L. Cioletti, E. Silva, M. Stadlbauer. Thermodynamic formalism for topological Markov chains on standard Borel spaces. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2019, 39 (11) : 6277-6298. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019274
[17]

Nicolás Matte Bon. Topological full groups of minimal subshifts with subgroups of intermediate growth. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2015, 9: 67-80. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2015.9.67
[18]

Benjamin Weiss. Entropy and actions of sofic groups. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2015, 20 (10) : 3375-3383. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.3375
[19]

André Caldas, Mauro Patrão. Entropy of endomorphisms of Lie groups. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (4) : 1351-1363. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1351
[20]

Steven T. Piantadosi. Symbolic dynamics on free groups. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2008, 20 (3) : 725-738. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2008.20.725

2018 Impact Factor: 1.143

Tools

Metrics

  • PDF downloads (16)
  • HTML views (0)
  • Cited by (3)

Other articles
by authors

[Back to Top]

Copyright © 2019 American Institute of Mathematical Sciences