Asymptotics of the translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane

Abstract

We study the family of holomorphic maps from the polydisk to the disk which restrict to the identity on the diagonal. In particular, we analyze the asymptotics of the orbit of such a map under the conjugation action of a unipotent subgroup of ${\text{PSL}}_2(\mathbb{R})$. We discuss an application our results to the study of the Caratheodory metric on Teichmuller space.

Incorporated referee's comments. Expanded introduction. Added section about chaoticity of translation flow on maps \mathbb{C}^k \rightarrow \mathbb{C}. Fixed typos