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Chaotic holomorphic automorphisms of Stein manifolds with the volume density property

Complex Variables 2018-07-05 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let XX be a Stein manifold of dimension n2n\geq 2 satisfying the volume density property with respect to an exact holomorphic volume form. For example, XX could be Cn\mathbb{C}^n, any connected linear algebraic group that is not reductive, the Koras-Russell cubic, or a product Y×CY\times\mathbb{C}, where YY is any Stein manifold with the volume density property. We prove that chaotic automorphisms are generic among volume-preserving holomorphic automorphisms of XX. In particular, XX has a chaotic holomorphic automorphism. A proof for X=CnX=\mathbb{C}^n may be found in work of Forn\ae ss and Sibony. We follow their approach closely. Peters, Vivas, and Wold showed that a generic volume-preserving automorphism of Cn\mathbb{C}^n, n2n\geq 2, has a hyperbolic fixed point whose stable manifold is dense in Cn\mathbb{C}^n. This property can be interpreted as a kind of chaos. We generalise their theorem to a Stein manifold as above.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02086,
  title  = {Chaotic holomorphic automorphisms of Stein manifolds with the volume density property},
  author = {Leandro Arosio and Finnur Larusson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02086},
  year   = {2018}
}