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Periodic point data detects subdynamics in entropy rank one

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2006

RICHARD MILES
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK (e-mail: r.miles@uea.ac.uk, t.ward@uea.ac.uk)
THOMAS WARD
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK (e-mail: r.miles@uea.ac.uk, t.ward@uea.ac.uk)

Abstract

A framework for understanding the geometry of continuous actions of $\mathbb Z^d$ was developed by Boyle and Lind using the notion of expansive behaviour along lower-dimensional subspaces. For algebraic $\mathbb Z^d$-actions of entropy rank one, the expansive subdynamics are readily described in terms of Lyapunov exponents. Here we show that periodic point counts for elements of an entropy rank-one action determine the expansive subdynamics. Moreover, the finer structure of the non-expansive set is visible in the topological and smooth structure of a set of functions associated to the periodic point data.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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