Erwan Lanneau gave a talk in Orsay about his work on surfaces of translation. Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms are homeomorphisms of such surfaces which are affine away from the singular set of the surface and whose differential is hyperbolic. The dilation factor is the dominant eigenvalue of that differential. It is a Perron number. The minimum of [...]
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Dilation factors of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms
Posted in Dynamics, talks, tagged Dynamics, flat surfaces, moduli space, pseudo-Anosov, smooth dynamics, surface dynamics, topology on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Discontinuity of the topological entropy for Lozi maps
Posted in Dynamics, news, papers, tagged continuity of the entropy, Dynamics, entropy, examples, hyperbolicity, Lozi maps, piecewise affine dynamics, surface dynamics on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have shown that, like diffeomorphisms, piecewise affine surface homeomorphisms are approximated in entropy by horseshoes, away from their singularities. It follows in particular that their topological entropy is lower-semicontinuous: a small perturbation cannot cause a macroscopic drop in entropy. The continuity of the entropy for such maps had been an open problem for some [...]
