Achievable spectral radii of symplectic Perron-Frobenius matrices

Abstract: A pseudo-Anosov surface automorphism

p h i

has associated to it an algebraic unit

l a m b d a_{p} h i

called the dilatation of

p h i

. It is known that in many cases

l a m b d a_{p} h i

appears as the spectral radius of a Perron-Frobenius matrix preserving a symplectic form

L

. We investigate what algebraic units could potentially appear as dilatations by first showing that every algebraic unit

l a m b d a

appears as an eigenvalue for some integral symplectic matrix. We then show that if

l a m b d a

is real and the greatest in modulus of its algebraic conjugates and their inverses, then

l a m b d a^{n}

is the spectral radius of an integral Perron-Frobenius matrix preserving a prescribed symplectic form

L

. An immediate application of this is that for

l a m b d a

as above,

l o g (l a m b d a^{n})

is the topological entropy of a subshift of finite type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2642

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