The coding of non-uniformly expanding maps with application to endomorphisms of $CP^k$ (Q4437754)

Given a dynamical system \((X,\mu, T)\), classically, one passes to a symbolic factor by introducing a finite partition \(\Pi\) and observing the \(\Pi\)-names of points of \(X\). It is desirable that the factor map (coding) \(\pi\) is ``close'' to being injective. The paper contains several results concerning smooth maps on compact manifolds in the spirit of the classical results on the interval (for a \(C^1\) map and the partition into monotonicity intervals, \(\pi\) is bounded-to-one on supports of nonperiodic ergodic measures). Namely, the main theorem asserts that for a \(C^{1+\alpha}\) map \(f\) on a compact manifold \(M\), an ergodic \(\mu\) with strictly positive Lyapunov exponents, and a partition \(\Pi\) into sets with \(\mu\)-null boundaries (in fact with a slightly stronger condition) and such that \(f\) is 1-1 on each element of \(\Pi\), the coding \(\pi\) is finite-to-one (and the same holds for the natural extension of \(f\)). The above result is then applied to obtain new (dynamical) proofs of theorems of \textit{J.-Y. Briend} and \textit{J. Duval} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 93, 145--159 (2001; Zbl 1010.37004)] concerning Lyapunov exponents of measures of maximal entropy of endomorphisms of complex projective spaces, and uniqueness of such a measure (in fact the new proof gives only finiteness of the set of such measures).