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An Equidistribution Result For Dynamical Systems on the Berkovich Projective Line

Dynamical Systems 2017-05-01 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Let KK be a complete, algebraically closed, non-Archimedean valued field, and let ϕK(z)\phi\in K(z) with deg(ϕ)2\textrm{deg}(\phi) \geq 2. In this paper we consider the family of functions ordResϕn(x)\textrm{ordRes}_{\phi^n}(x), which measure the resultant of ϕn\phi^n at points xx in PK1\textbf{P}^1_{\textrm{K}}, the Berkovich projective line, and show that they converge locally uniformly to the diagonal values of the Arakelov-Green's function gμϕ(x,x)g_{\mu_{\phi}}(x,x) attached to the canonical measure of ϕ\phi. Following this, we are able to prove an equidistribution result for Rumely's crucial measures νϕn\nu_{\phi^n}, each of which is a probability measure supported at finitely many points whose weights are determined by dynamical properties of ϕ\phi.

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@article{arxiv.1409.4808,
  title  = {An Equidistribution Result For Dynamical Systems on the Berkovich Projective Line},
  author = {Kenneth Jacobs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4808},
  year   = {2017}
}

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To appear in Journal of Number Theory