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Topological pressure and equilibrium state for certain correspondences

Dynamical Systems 2025-12-18 v1

Abstract

In \cite{Miller-Akin1999}, Miller and Akin investigated the invariant measures for correspondences, which are also known as upper semi-continuous set-valued maps. Recently, the variational principle and thermodynamic formalism for forward expansive correspondences were studied by Li, Li and Zhang \cite{Xiaoran Li-Zhiqiang Li-Yiwei Zhang2023}. In this paper, the invariant measures and the associated transition probability kernels are explicitly expressed for certain correspondences satisfying the assumptions in \cite{Xiaoran Li-Zhiqiang Li-Yiwei Zhang2023} via the equilibrium states of some particular potentials. Let TT be a correspondence on a closed connected Riemannian manifold generated by finite C2C^{2}-expanding endomorphisms. When the generators of TT have no coincidence point, a locally H\"{o}lder continuous potential ϕ\phi of two variables is defined via the Jacobians of the generators. The pressure of ϕ\phi and its equilibrium state (μ,Q)(\mu, \mathcal{Q}) are obtained, where μ\mu is a TT-invariant measure which is absolutely continuous with respect to the volume and Q\mathcal{Q} is the associated transition probability kernel satisfying μQ=μ\mu\mathcal{Q}=\mu. For the correspondence TT on the torus whose generators have coincidence points, the variational topological pressures for measurable potentials are introduced and the corresponding equilibrium states are considered. Moreover, the uniqueness of the equilibrium states of correspondences is considered via the natural extensions.

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@article{arxiv.2512.15238,
  title  = {Topological pressure and equilibrium state for certain correspondences},
  author = {Yu Zhang and Yujun Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15238},
  year   = {2025}
}
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