Renewal sequences and intermittency (Q1969286)

This paper deals with the dynamical aspects of a one-parameter family of linearized intermittent interval maps introduced by Gaspard and Wang. The author is mainly intereted in the study of the generating function of a renewal sequence arising from the distribution of return times in a region where the map is uniformly expanding. This function coincides, up to a factor \((1-z)^{-1}\), with the Ruelle dynamical \(\zeta\)-function, and the author shows that it admits a meromorphic continuation to the entire complex \(z\)-plane with a branch cut along the ray \((1,+\infty)\). Moreover it is shown that the main statistical features of this dynamical system such as the rate of mixing or the scaling rate, are embodied in the behaviour of its Taylor coefficients.