Expanding property and statistical laws for $p$-adic subhyperbolic rational maps

Abstract

Let $K$ be a finite extension of the field ${\mathbb{Q}}_p$ of $p$-adic numbers. A rational map $\varphi \in K(z)$ of degree at least $2$ is subhyperbolic if each critical point in the ${\mathbb{C}}_p$-Julia set of $\varphi$ is eventually periodic. We show that subhyperbolic maps in $K(z)$ exhibit expanding property with respect to some (singular) metric. As an application, under a mild assumption, we establish several statistical laws for such maps in $K(z)$ with compact ${\mathbb{C}}_p$-Julia sets.

20 pages