Volume entropy of hyperbolic buildings

DOI10.3934/JMD.2010.4.139MaRDI QIDQ975584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Ledrappier, Seonhee Lim

Publication date 10 June 2010

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1168

zbMATH Keywords

buildinggeodesic flow, Bowen-Margulis measure, Liouville measuretopological entropyvolume entropyvolume growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Topological entropy (37B40) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: We characterize the volume entropy of an arbitrary regular building as the topological pressure of the geodesic flow on an apartment. We show that the Liouville measure is not entropy maximizing measure for regular hyperbolic buildings. As a consequence, we obtain a strict lower bound on the volume entropy in terms of the branching numbers and the volume of the boundary polyhedrons.

Review text

The paper under review deals with the volume entropy of hyperbolic or Euclidean regular buildings. The volume entropy is defined as the exponential growth rate of the volume of balls. The first theorem characterizes the volume entropy in terms of the topological pressure of the geodesic flow on an apartment, by taking the supremum of this pressure among measures invariant by the geodesic flow. In the hyperbolic case, this supremum is realized by the Bowen-Margulis measure of the space of geodesics of the building, and here it is shown that it does not project to a Liouville measure on the unit tangent bundle of the apartments. This is used to obtain strict lower bounds of the volume entropy in terms of the branching numbers and the volume of the Coxeter polyhedron and its boundary.

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