Dynamical zeta functions, Nielsen theory and Reidemeister torsion

DOI10.1090/MEMO/0699MaRDI QIDQ4520063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 3 January 2001

Published in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9603017, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.286.7605

zbMATH Keywords

Nielsen number Reidemeister number Reidemeister torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-02) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

Abstract: The paper consists of four parts. Part I presents a brief survey of the Nielsen fixed point theory. Part II deals with dynamical zeta functions connected with Nielsen fixed point theory. Part III is concerned with congruences for the Reidemeister and Nielsen numbers. Part IV deals with the Reidemeister torsion . In Chapter 2 we prove that the Reidemeister zeta function of a group endomorphism is a rational function with functional equation in the following cases: the group is finitely generated and an endomorphism is eventually commutative; the group is finite ; the group is a direct sum of a finite group and a finitely generated free abelian group; the group is finitely generated, nilpotent and torsion free. In Chapter 3 we show that the Nielsen zeta function has a positive radius of convergence which admits a sharp estimate in terms of the topological entropy of the map. For a periodic map of a compact polyhedron we prove that Nielsen zeta function is a radical of a rational function. In sect ion 3.4 and 3.5 we give sufficient conditions under which the Nielsen zeta function coincides with the Reidemeister zeta function and is a rational function with functional equation. In Chapter 5 we prove analog of Dold congruences for Reidemeister and Nielsen numbers. In section 6.2 we establish a connection between the Reidemeister torsion and Reidemeister zeta function. In section 6.3 we establish a connection between the Reidemeister torsion of a mapping torus, the eta-invariant, the Rochlin invariant and the multipliers of the theta function. In section 6.4 we describe with the help of the Reidemeister torsion the connection between the topology of the attraction domain of an attractor and the dynamic of the system on the attractor.

Review text

Let \(f:X\to X\) be a map and denote its \(n\)-th iterate by \(f^n\), that is, \(f^n(x)= f(f^{n-1}(x))\). Artin and Mazur defined a zeta function \(F_f (z)\), modelled on a zeta function of algebraic geometry, by setting \[ F_f(z)= \exp\left( \sum^\infty_{n=1} {F(f^n)\over n}z^n \right) \] where \(F(f^n)\) is the number of isolated fixed points of \(f^n\). They showed that, under suitable hypotheses, \(F_f(z)\) has a positive radius of convergence and is a rational function. Smale replaced the \(F(f^n)\) by the Lefschetz numbers of \(f^n\) and found conditions for the resulting zeta function to be rational. In a number of papers published during the past 15 years or so, the author has very thoroughly investigated the zeta functions that result from replacing the Lefschetz numbers of \(f^n\) by their Nielsen or Reidemeister numbers. The Nielsen number of a map is a homotopy invariant lower bound for the number of fixed points of the map and the Reidemeister number is a closely related, basically algebraic, concept. After a brief exposition of the Nielsen and Reidemeister numbers, the main part of this monograph presents the author's results concerning the corresponding zeta functions. This is followed by an exposition of the author's congruence relations for the Nielsen and Reidemeister numbers of \(f^n,\) that relate to those zeta functions in much the same way as Dold's celebrated congruence result for the Lefschetz numbers of \(f^n\) relates to that zeta function. The final chapter concerns Reidemeister torsion, with regard to its connection to the zeta function based on the Reidemeister numbers of \(f^n\), as well as other aspects of Reidemeister torsion that have been explored by the author.

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