Computing dynamical degrees

Publication date 23 March 2014

Iteration of holomorphic maps, fixed points of holomorphic maps and related problems for several complex variables (32H50) Dynamical systems over complex numbers (37F99)

Abstract: The dynamical degrees of a rational map

f : X d a s h r i g h t a r r o w X

are fundamental invariants describing the rate of growth of the action of iterates of

f

on the cohomology of

X

. When

f

has nonempty indeterminacy set, these quantities can be very difficult to determine. We study rational maps

f : X^{N} d a s h r i g h t a r r o w X^{N}

, where

X^{N}

is isomorphic to the Deligne-Mumford compactification

o v e r l i n e {m a t h c a l M}_{0, N + 3}

. We exploit the stratified structure of

X^{N}

to provide new examples of rational maps, in arbitrary dimension, for which the action on cohomology behaves functorially under iteration. From this, all dynamical degrees can be readily computed (given enough book-keeping and computing time). In this article, we explicitly compute all of the dynamical degrees for all such maps

f : X^{N} d a s h r i g h t a r r o w X^{N}

, where

m a t h r m d i m (X^{N}) l e q 3

and the first dynamical degrees for the mappings where

m a t h r m d i m (X^{N}) l e q 5

. These examples naturally arise in the setting of Thurston's topological characterization of rational maps.

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