Continuity of the Green function in meromorphic families of polynomials

We prove that along any marked point the Green function of a meromorphic family of polynomials parameterized by the punctured unit disk explodes exponentially fast near the origin with a continuous error term.Comment: Modified references. Added a corollary about the adelic metric associated with an algebraic family endowed with a marked poin

The dynamical Manin-Mumford problem for plane polynomial automorphisms

Let $f$ be a polynomial automorphism of the affine plane. In this paper we consider the possibility for it to possess infinitely many periodic points on an algebraic curve $C$. We conjecture that this happens if and only if $f$ admits a time-reversal symmetry; in particular the Jacobian $\mathrm{Jac}(f)$ must be a root of unity. As a step towards this conjecture, we prove that the Jacobian of $f$ and all its Galois conjugates lie on the unit circle in the complex plane. Under mild additional assumptions we are able to conclude that indeed $\mathrm{Jac}(f)$ is a root of unity. We use these results to show in various cases that any two automorphisms sharing an infinite set of periodic points must have a common iterate, in the spirit of recent results by Baker-DeMarco and Yuan-Zhang.Comment: 45 pages. Theorems A and B are now extended to automorphisms defined over any field of characteristic zer

Degree growth of monomial maps and McMullen's polytope algebra

We compute all dynamical degrees of monomial maps by interpreting them as mixed volumes of polytopes. By exploiting further the isomorphism between the polytope algebra of P. McMullen and the universal cohomology of complete toric varieties, we construct invariant positive cohomology classes when the dynamical degrees have no resonance.Comment: 26 pages. Minor modification

Eigenvaluations

We study the dynamics in C^2 of superattracting fixed point germs and of polynomial maps near infinity. In both cases we show that the asymptotic attraction rate is a quadratic integer, and construct a plurisubharmonic function with the adequate invariance property. This is done by finding an infinitely near point at which the map becomes rigid: the critical set is contained in a totally invariant set with normal crossings. We locate this infinitely near point through the induced action of the dynamics on a space of valuations. This space carries an real-tree structure and conveniently encodes local data: an infinitely near point corresponds to a open subset of the tree. The action respects the tree structure and admits a fixed point--or eigenvaluation--which is attracting in a certain sense. A suitable basin of attraction corresponds to the desired infinitely near point.Comment: 48 pages, 2 figures, To appear in Annales de l'EN

Webs invariant by rational maps on surfaces

We prove that under mild hypothesis rational maps on a surface preserving webs are of Latt\`es type. We classify endomorphisms of P^2 preserving webs, extending former results of Dabija-Jonsson.Comment: 27 pages, submitte

Holomorphic self-maps of singular rational surfaces

We give a new proof of the classification of normal singular surface germs admitting non-invertible holomorphic self-maps and due to J. Wahl. We then draw an analogy between the birational classification of singular holomorphic foliations on surfaces, and the dynamics of holomorphic maps. Following this analogy, we introduce the notion of minimal holomorphic model for holomorphic maps. We give sufficient conditions which ensure the uniqueness of such a model.Comment: 37 pages. To appear in Publicacions Matematiques