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Topological Entropy Conjecture

Dynamical Systems 2018-03-13 v4 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In 1974, M. Shub stated Topological Entropy Conjecture, that is, the inequality logρent(f)\log\rho\leq ent(f) is valid or not, where ff is a continuous self-map on a compact manifold MM, ent(f)ent(f) is the topological entropy of ff and ρ\rho is the maximum absolute eigenvalue of ff_* which is the linear transformation induced by ff on the homology group H(M;Z)=i=0nHi(M;Z)H_{*}(M;\mathbb{Z})=\bigoplus\limits_{i=0}^n{H_{i}(M;\mathbb{Z})}. In 1986, A. B. Katok gave a counterexample such that the inequality logρent(f)\log\rho\leq ent(f) is invalid. In this paper, we define ff-\v{C}ech homology group Hˇi(X,f;Z)\check{H}_{i}(X,f;\mathbb{Z}) and topological fiber entropy ent(fL)ent(f_L) on compact Hausdorff space XX for which there is n=n(J)n=n(J) such that Hˇ(X;Z)\check{H}_*(X;\mathbb{Z}) exists, where fC0(X)f\in C^0(X) and JJ is the set of all covers. Then we prove that logρent(fL)\log\rho\leq ent(f_L) is valid.

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@article{arxiv.1209.3936,
  title  = {Topological Entropy Conjecture},
  author = {Lvlin Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3936},
  year   = {2018}
}

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