Real topological entropy versus metric entropy for birational measure-preserving transformations (Q1587683)

The authors consider the one-parameter family of maps \(F_\alpha :\mathbb{C}^2\to\mathbb{C}^2\) of the form \[ (x,z)\mapsto \left(y-1-\alpha,x\;\frac{y-\alpha}{y+1}\right). \] They discuss the growth rate of periodic points (here called entropy), the corresponding zetafunction and the Arnold complexity for two-dimensional maps (counting the number of complex intersections of a given line). Real versions of the notions are introduced by counting only periodic points which are real. The major part of the paper describes numerical simulations mainly on Lyapunov exponents.