Achievable spectral radii of symplectic Perron-Frobenius matrices

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Authors Robert Ackermann

Publication date 10 May 2012

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2642, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2011/17-29.html

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zbMATH Keywords

dilatationPerron-Frobenius matrixpseudo-Anosovspectral radii

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices of integers (15B36) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: A pseudo-Anosov surface automorphism $phi$ has associated to it an algebraic unit $lambd{a}_{p}hi$ called the dilatation of $phi$. It is known that in many cases $lambd{a}_{p}hi$ 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 $lambda$ appears as an eigenvalue for some integral symplectic matrix. We then show that if $lambda$ is real and the greatest in modulus of its algebraic conjugates and their inverses, then $lambd{a}^n$ is the spectral radius of an integral Perron-Frobenius matrix preserving a prescribed symplectic form $L$. An immediate application of this is that for $lambda$ as above, $log(lambd{a}^n)$ is the topological entropy of a subshift of finite type.

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