Equilibrium measures on trees

We give a characterization of equilibrium measures for p-capacities on the boundary of an infinite tree of arbitrary (finite) local degree. For $$p=2$$ p = 2 , this provides, in the special case of trees, a converse to a theorem of Benjamini and Schramm, which interpretes the equilibrium measure of a planar graph’s boundary in terms of square tilings of cylinders.

Equilibrium measures of the natural extension of -shifts

We give a necessary and sufficient condition on $\beta $ of the natural extension of a $\beta $ -shift, so that any equilibrium measure for a function of bounded total oscillations is a weak Gibbs measure.

Convergence of equilibrium measures corresponding to finite subgraphs of infinite graphs: New examples

A problem from thermodynamic formalism for countable symbolic Markov chains is considered. It concerns asymptotic behavior of the equilibrium measures corresponding to increasing sequences of finite submatrices of an infinite nonnegative matrix A A when these sequences converge to A A . After reviewing the results obtained up to now, a solution of the problem is given for a new matrix class. The geometric language of loaded graphs is used, instead of the matrix language.

Symbolic dynamics for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems

This survey describes the recent advances in the construction of Markov partitions for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems. One important feature of this development comes from a finer theory of non-uniformly hyperbolic systems, which we also describe. The Markov partition defines a symbolic extension that is finite-to-one and onto a non-uniformly hyperbolic locus, and this provides dynamical and statistical consequences such as estimates on the number of closed orbits and properties of equilibrium measures. The class of systems includes diffeomorphisms, flows, and maps with singularities.

High temperature convergence of the KMS boundary conditions: The Bose-Hubbard model on a finite graph

The Kubo–Martin–Schwinger (KMS) condition is a widely studied fundamental property in quantum statistical mechanics which characterizes the thermal equilibrium states of quantum systems. In the seventies, Gallavotti and Verboven, proposed an analogue to the KMS condition for infinite classical mechanical systems and highlighted its relationship with the Kirkwood–Salzburg equations and with the Gibbs equilibrium measures. In this paper, we prove that in a certain limiting regime of high temperature the classical KMS condition can be derived from the quantum condition in the simple case of the Bose–Hubbard dynamical system on a finite graph. The main ingredients of the proof are Golden–Thompson inequality, Bogoliubov inequality and semiclassical analysis.

Continuity of condenser capacity under holomorphic motions

We show that condenser capacity varies continuously under holomorphic motions, and the corresponding family of the equilibrium measures of the condensers is continuous with respect to the weak-star convergence. We also study the behavior of uniformly perfect sets under holomorphic motions.

Smale endomorphisms over graph-directed Markov systems

We study Smale skew product endomorphisms (introduced in Mihailescu and Urbański [Skew product Smale endomorphisms over countable shifts of finite type. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. doi: 10.1017/etds.2019.31. Published online June 2019]) now over countable graph-directed Markov systems, and we prove the exact dimensionality of conditional measures in fibers, and then the global exact dimensionality of the equilibrium measure itself. Our results apply to large classes of systems and have many applications. They apply, for instance, to natural extensions of graph-directed Markov systems. Another application is to skew products over parabolic systems. We also give applications in ergodic number theory, for example to the continued fraction expansion, and the backward fraction expansion. In the end we obtain a general formula for the Hausdorff (and pointwise) dimension of equilibrium measures with respect to the induced maps of natural extensions ${\mathcal{T}}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}$ of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}$ -maps $T_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}}$ , for arbitrary $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}>1$ .