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Real Rational Surface Automorphisms : Positivity and Linearity

Dynamical Systems 2025-09-03 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We study the real dynamics of a family of rational surface automorphisms obtained from quadratic birational maps of \pcc\pcc that preserve a cuspidal cubic and whose critical orbits have lengths (1,m,n)(1,m,n) with 1+m+n101+m+n\ge 10. Passing to the real locus and cutting along the invariant cubic, we obtain a diffeomorphism of an orientable surface whose fundamental group is free. Our key device is a finitely generated invariant, positive semigroup Sm,nS_{m,n} in the fundamental group on which an iterate of induced action acts by concatenation without cancellation. This positivity yields a nonnegative primitive transition matrix, so Perron-Frobenius theory supplies an explicit exponential growth rate λ>1\lambda>1 for the induced action on the fundamental group. Consequently, the real map has positive topological entropy. We package the combinatorics of the generators in a ``Core-Tail Induction Principle," which allows us to treat simultaneously seven orbit-data families with only finite base checks. Finally, using Bestvina-Handel and the Dehn-Nielsen-Baer correspondence, we show that the induced outer automorphism with m+nm+n odd is realized by a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of the cut surface.

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@article{arxiv.2508.14728,
  title  = {Real Rational Surface Automorphisms : Positivity and Linearity},
  author = {Kyounghee Kim and Insung Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14728},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

The issue with notation has been corrected

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