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Degree growth of skew pentagram maps

Dynamical Systems 2025-12-12 v1

Abstract

Skew pentagram maps act on polygons by intersecting diagonals of different lengths. They were introduced by Khesin-Soloviev in 2015 as conjecturally non-integrable generalizations of the pentagram map, a well-known integrable system. In this paper, we show that certain skew pentagram maps have exponential degree growth and no preserved fibration. To formalize this, we introduce a general notion of first dynamical degree for lattice maps, or shift-invariant self-maps of (PN)Z(\mathbb{P}^N)^\mathbb{Z}. We show that the dynamical degree of any equal-length pentagram map is 1, but that there are infinitely many skew pentagram maps with dynamical degree 4.

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@article{arxiv.2512.10062,
  title  = {Degree growth of skew pentagram maps},
  author = {Max Weinreich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10062},
  year   = {2025}
}

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34 pages