Real Rational Surface Automorphisms : Positivity and Linearity

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Main Authors: Kim, Kyounghee, Park, Insung
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author Kim, Kyounghee
Park, Insung
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Park, Insung
contents We study the real dynamics of a family of rational surface automorphisms obtained from quadratic birational maps of $\pcc$ that preserve a cuspidal cubic and whose critical orbits have lengths $(1,m,n)$ with $1+m+n\ge 10$. 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 $S_{m,n}$ 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 $λ>1$ 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 $m+n$ odd is realized by a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of the cut surface.
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spellingShingle Real Rational Surface Automorphisms : Positivity and Linearity
Kim, Kyounghee
Park, Insung
Dynamical Systems
Group Theory
37E30, 20F28, 20F34, 57S05, 14E07
We study the real dynamics of a family of rational surface automorphisms obtained from quadratic birational maps of $\pcc$ that preserve a cuspidal cubic and whose critical orbits have lengths $(1,m,n)$ with $1+m+n\ge 10$. 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 $S_{m,n}$ 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 $λ>1$ 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 $m+n$ odd is realized by a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of the cut surface.
title Real Rational Surface Automorphisms : Positivity and Linearity
topic Dynamical Systems
Group Theory
37E30, 20F28, 20F34, 57S05, 14E07
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14728