Renormalisation-induced phase transitions for unimodal maps (Q731299)

This paper studies the thermodynamical formalism for renormalizable unimodal maps. For the case of non-renormalizable maps, two recent papers which study thermodynamics are \textit{H. Bruin} and \textit{M. Todd} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 42, No. 4, 559--600 (2009; Zbl 1192.37051)] and \textit{Y. Pesin} and \textit{S. Senti} [Mosc. Math. J. 5, No. 3, 669--678 (2005; Zbl 1109.37028)]. Let \(h_\mu\) be the entropy with respect to measure \(\mu\) and let \(\chi_\mu\) be the Lyapunov exponent. The variational pressure \(\mathcal P(t)\) is the supremum of \(h_\mu-t \chi_\mu\) over all ergodic \(f\)-invariant probability measures. A measure which attains the supremum is called an equilibrium state. A phase transition occurs at \(t\) if \(\mathcal P(t)\) is not differentiable at \(t\). Proposition 4 implies that a quadratic map with positive topological entropy has a phase transition at some \(t<0\). Another main result of this paper (Proposition 9) is that there exist uncountably many parameters \(a\) where the pressure function of the quadratic map \(f_a\) has a denumerable number of phase transitions in \((0,1)\), exactly one phase transition at some \(t_a<0\), and no phase transitions at \(t=0\) or \(t \geq 1\). Proposition 9 continues stating that between phase transitions the pressure function is analytic, strictly decreasing for \(t<1\), and 0 for \(t \geq 1\). Furthermore, at each phase transition there are exactly two equilibrium states.