English

Random complex dynamics and devil's coliseums

Dynamical Systems 2015-03-16 v8 Complex Variables Geometric Topology Probability

Abstract

We investigate the random dynamics of polynomial maps on the Riemann sphere and the dynamics of semigroups of polynomial maps on the Riemann sphere. In particular, the dynamics of a semigroup GG of polynomials whose planar postcritical set is bounded and the associated random dynamics are studied. In general, the Julia set of such a GG may be disconnected. We show that if GG is such a semigroup, then regarding the associated random dynamics, the chaos of the averaged system disappears in the C0C^{0} sense, and the function TT_{\infty} of probability of tending to \infty is H\"{o}lder continuous on the Riemann sphere and varies only on the Julia set of GG. Moreover, the function TT_{\infty} has a kind of monotonicity. It turns out that TT_{\infty} is a complex analogue of the devil's staircase, and we call TT_{\infty} a "devil's coliseum." We investigate the details of TT_{\infty} when GG is generated by two polynomials. In this case, TT_{\infty} varies precisely on the Julia set of GG, which is a thin fractal set. Moreover, under this condition, we investigate the pointwise H\"{o}lder exponents of TT_{\infty} by using some geometric observations, ergodic theory, potential theory and function theory. In particular, we show that for almost every point zz in the Julia set of GG with respect to an invariant measure, TT_{\infty} is not differentiable at z.z. We find many new phenomena of random complex dynamics which cannot hold in the usual iteration dynamics of a single polynomial, and we systematically investigate them.

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@article{arxiv.1104.3640,
  title  = {Random complex dynamics and devil's coliseums},
  author = {Hiroki Sumi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3640},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Published in Nonlinearity 28 (2015) 1135-1161. See also http://www.math.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/~sumi/

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