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The entropy of polynomial diffeomorphisms of C2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

John Smillie
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Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA
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In this note we answer a question raised by Friedland and Milnor in [FM] concerning the topological entropy of polynomial diffeomorphisms of C2.

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