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Dimension of Furstenberg measures on $\mathbb{CP}^{1}$

Dynamical Systems 2025-11-12 v2

Abstract

Let θ\theta be a finitely supported probability measure on SL(2,C)\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C}), and suppose that the semigroup generated by G:=supp(θ)\mathcal{G}:=\mathrm{supp}(\theta) is strongly irreducible and proximal. Let μ\mu denote the Furstenberg measure on CP1\mathbb{CP}^{1} associated to θ\theta. Assume further that no generalized circle is fixed by all M\"obius transformations corresponding to elements of G\mathcal{G}, and that G\mathcal{G} satisfies a mild Diophantine condition. Under these assumptions, we prove that dimμ=min{2,hRW/(2χ)}\dim\mu=\min\left\{ 2,h_{\mathrm{RW}}/\left(2\chi\right)\right\} , where hRWh_{\mathrm{RW}} and χ\chi denote the random walk entropy and Lyapunov exponent associated to θ\theta, respectively. Since our result expresses dimμ\dim\mu in terms of the random walk entropy rather than the Furstenberg entropy, and relies only on a mild Diophantine condition as a separation assumption, we are forced to directly confront difficulties arising from the ambient space CP1\mathbb{CP}^{1} having real dimension 22 rather than 11. Moreover, our analysis takes place in a projective, contracting-on-average setting. This combination of features introduces significant challenges and requires genuinely new ideas.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.00729,
  title  = {Dimension of Furstenberg measures on $\mathbb{CP}^{1}$},
  author = {Ariel Rapaport and Haojie Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.00729},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

55 pages. Minor changes in the introduction; all other parts unchanged