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Salem numbers and Enriques surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2017-01-10 v3

Abstract

It is known that the dynamical degree, or equivalently, the topological entropy of an automorphism g of an algebraic surface S is lower semi-continuous when (S,g) varies in a algebraic family. In this paper we make a series of experiments confirming this behavior with the aim to realize small Salem numbers as the dynamical degrees of automorphisms of Enriques surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04222,
  title  = {Salem numbers and Enriques surfaces},
  author = {Igor Dolgachev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04222},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Final version, two references added, some corrections in computer computations, to appear in Experimental Mathematics

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