A multifractal formalism for growth rates and applications to geometrically finite Kleinian groups (2001)英文教材.pdf

Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. (2001), XX, 1–28 Printed in the United Kingdom c 2001 Cambridge University Press A multifractal formalism for growth rates and applications to geometrically finite Kleinian groups ¨ MARC H. KESSEBOHMER and BERND O. STRATMANN University of St. Andrews, Mathematical Institute, North Haugh, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK (e-mail: mk17@st-andrews.ac.uk) (e-mail: bos@st-andrews.ac.uk) (Received July ) Abstract . We elaborate thermodynamical and multifractal formalisms for general classes of potential functions and their average growth rates. We then apply these formalisms to certain geometrically finite Kleinian groups which may have parabolic elements of different ranks. We show that for these groups our revised formalisms give access to a description of the spectrum of ‘homological growth rate s’ in terms of Hausdorff dimension. Furthermore, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of ’thermodynamical phase transitions’. 1. Introduction and statement of results In this paper we elaborate a multifractal formalism for general classes of potential functions and their average growth rates. For this we set up a thermodynamical formalism which generalizes the so far existing one. We then show that these so revised formalisms are applicable to geometrically finite Kleinian groups, where they reveal intricate fractal aspects of the ‘homological growth rates’. More precisely, we consider tuples
A of certain sequences of continuous real–valued functions and , defined over a subshift of finite type . Here the