Attractors (Q3147675)

This paper under review is concerned with attractors. In the theory of (topologically) complex dynamical systems, attractors and critical points play an essential role. Let \(M\) be a topological space and \(f:M\to M\) a continuous map. An attractor, in this paper, is a distinguished point of \(M\) which is said to absorb all points \(q\in M\) whose orbit get closer than a given number. They investigate attractors that are extended in space, but where the internal dynamics is ignored. In Section 2, they consider the case of an invariant mixing ergodic measure and prove that all attractors absorb mass at the same rate. Examples are given: irrational rotation map of the unit circle, shift map of symbolic dynamical systems with two symbols and the exponential family \(f(z)= \exp(i\psi z)\). In Section 3, they show for hyperbolic maps with product structure that a dense set of points avoid any given attractor. In Section 4, they extend the result of Section 3 to arbitrary holomorphic maps of \(\mathbb{P}^k\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0989.00069].