Expanding maps of the circle rerevisited: Positive Lyapunov exponents in a rich family

Mike Shub | Pujals, Enrique R. | Robert, Leonel

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In this paper we revisit once again, see \cite{S-S}, a family of expanding circle endomorphisms. We consider a family $\{B_\theta\}$ of Blaschke products acting on the unit circle, $\mathbb{T}$, in the complex plane obtained by composing a given Blashke product $B$ with the rotations about zero given by mulitplication by $\theta \in \mathbb{T}$. While the initial map $B$ may have a fixed sink on $\mathbb{T}$ there is always an open set of $\theta$ for which $B_\theta$ is an expanding map. We prove a lower bound for the average measure theoretic entropy of this family of maps in terms of $\int ln|B'(z)|dz$ .

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• BlaschkePRS1.pdf