Dynamics of endomorphisms of algebraic groups and related systems

MaRDI QIDQ6409399FDO

Authors Jakub Byszewski, Gunther Cornelissen, Marc Houben

Publication date 31 August 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Orbit growth in dynamical systems (37C35) Recurrences (11B37) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Analytic continuation of functions of one complex variable (30B40) Arithmetic dynamics on general algebraic varieties (37P55) Group varieties (14L10) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45)

Abstract: Let $sigma$ denote an endomorphism of a smooth algebraic group $G$ over the algebraic closure of a finite field, and assume all iterates of $sigma$ have finitely many fixed points. Steinberg gave a formula for the number of fixed points of $sigma$ (and hence of all of its iterates $sigm{a}^n$) in the semisimple case, leading to a representation of its Artin-Mazur zeta function as a rational function. We generalise this to an arbitrary (smooth) algebraic group $G$, where the number of fixed points $sigm{a}_n$ of $sigm{a}^n$ can depend on $p$-adic properties of $n$. We axiomatise the structure of the sequence $(sigm{a}_n)$ via the concept of a `finite-adelically distorted' (FAD-)sequence. Such sequences also occur in topological dynamics, and our subsequent results about zeta functions and asymptotic counting of orbits apply equally well in that situation; for example, to $S$-integer dynamical systems, additive cellular automata and other compact abelian groups. We prove dichotomies for the associated Artin-Mazur zeta function, and study the analogue of the Prime Number Theorem for the function counting periodic orbits of length $leqN$. For an algebraic group $G$ we express the error term via the $ell$-adic cohomological zeta function of $G$.

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