Gibbs and equilibrium measures for elliptic functions (Q2484062)

The paper under review concerns with the dynamics of elliptic functions. Each elliptic function canonically induces a holomorphic dynamical system on a punctured torus. The authors introduce on the torus a class of summable potentials. With each such potential associated is the corresponding transfer operator. The authors obtain a few nice results for the elliptic functions and their main results are the following: (1) The Gibbs state exists and is unique; moreover, the measure is ergodic and supported on the conical limit set; (2) the Gibbs state is the only equilibrium state for the potential in the sense of classical variational principle; (3) the Hausdorff dimension of the Julia set of an expending elliptic function coincides with the only zero of the pressure function. The main results are proven by a detailed analysis of the transfer operator and its decomposition into ``bad'' and ``good'' parts. This requires a careful control of all inverse branches of the map on the torus. To make the picture more complete, the authors show that the transfer operator is almost periodic and, consequently, the dynamical system on the torus is metrically exact.