Puzzles of quasi-finite type, zeta functions and symbolic dynamics for multi-dimensional maps (Q983143)

The paper under review is a very interesting and deep mathematical work. The author studies entropy-expanding transformations which define a class of smooth dynamical systems which generalizes positive entropy and expanding maps. In this paper a symbolic representation of those dynamics in terms of puzzles in the Yoccoz's sense is constructed. Those puzzles are controlled by a ``constraint entropy'' bounded by the hypersurface entropy of the aforementioned transformations. This approach allows the generalization of classical properties of subshifts of finite type: finite multiplicity of maximal entropy measures, almost topological classification, meromorphic extension of Artin-Mazur zetafunctions counting periodic points.