Entropy of bounding tori (Q653371)

Summary: Branched manifolds that describe strange attractors in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\) can be enclosed in, and are organized by, canonical bounding tori. Tori of genus \(g\) are labeled by a symbol sequence, or ``periodic orbit'', of period \(g-1\). We show that the number of distinct canonical bounding tori grows exponentially like \(N(g)\sim e^{\gamma (g-1)}\), with \(e^{\gamma } = 3\), so that the ``bounding tori entropy'' is \(\log (3)\).