Chaotic holomorphic automorphisms of Stein manifolds with the volume density property (Q2421241)

The authors prove the existence of a chaotic holomorphic automorphism for any Stein manifold \(X\) of dimension at least \(2\) satisfying the volume density property with respect to an exact volume form. More precisely, they prove that chaotic automorphisms are generic among volume-preserving holomorphic automorphisms. The case \(X=\mathbb C^n\) can be found in the work of \textit{J. E. Fornæss} and \textit{N. Sibony} [Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 17, No. 4, 821--837 (1997; Zbl 0965.37046)]. \textit{H. Peters} et al. [Int. J. Math. 19, No. 7, 801--810 (2008; Zbl 1149.37027)] proved that a generic volume-preserving holomorphic automorphism of \(\mathbb C^n\) has a hyperbolic fixed point whose stable manifold is dense in \(\mathbb C^n\). New examples of manifolds with chaotic holomorphic automorphisms include connected linear groups, that are not reductive, the Koras-Russel cubic, and a product \(Y\times \mathbb C\) where \(Y\) is any Stein manifold with the volume density property. An explicit example of such an automorphism is however not known, not even in the case of \(\mathbb C^n\).