Convergence of the transfer operator for rational maps

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The subject of this paper under review is to consider the action of the transfer operator for a general class of rational maps. Let \(T\) be a rational function on the Riemann sphere \(\overline{\mathbb{C}}\) of degree \(d\geq 2\), and denote by \({\mathcal J}\) its Julia set. If \(f:{\mathcal J}\to \mathbb{R}\) is the continuous function, then one defines the associated transfer operator \({\mathcal L}\) by \[ {\mathcal L}\varphi(x)= \sum_{y\in T^{-1}x} e^{f(y)} \varphi(y), \] where \(\varphi\) are functions on \({\mathcal J}\) and \(x\in {\mathcal J}\). Let \(C^\alpha({\mathcal J})\) be the Hölder continuous functions on \({\mathcal J}\) with Hölder exponent \(\alpha\). For real \(f\) the transfer operator \({\mathcal L}\) has a largest simple eigenvalue whose associated eigenfunction and eigenfunctional define an invariant measure \(\mu\) on \({\mathcal J}\). The main result, according to Theorems 10 and 11, is to show that for \(f\in C^\alpha({\mathcal J})\), \({\mathcal L}\) contracts to the eigenspace spanned by \(\mu\) exponentially fast in the supremum norm and in the Hölder norm for small enough Hölder exponents \(\kappa< \alpha\).




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