Nice inducing schemes and the thermodynamics of rational maps

Abstract

We consider the thermodynamic formalism of a complex rational map $f$ of degree at least two, viewed as a dynamical system acting on the Riemann sphere. More precisely, for a real parameter $t$ we study the (non-)existence of equilibrium states of $f$ for the potential $-t\ln |f^{\prime }|$, and the analytic dependence on $t$ of the corresponding pressure function. We give a fairly complete description of the thermodynamic formalism of a rational map that is "expanding away from critical points" and that has arbitrarily small "nice sets" with some additional properties. Our results apply in particular to non-renormalizable polynomials without indifferent periodic points, infinitely renormalizable quadratic polynomials with a priori bounds, real quadratic polynomials, topological Collet-Eckmann rational maps, and to backward contracting rational maps. As an application, for these maps we describe the dimension spectrum of Lyapunov exponents, and of pointwise dimensions of the measure of maximal entropy, and obtain some level-1 large deviations results.

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