Uniform dynamical-degree lower-bound conjecture for dominant rational maps

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Let N≥1N\geq 1 and let f:PN⇢PNf:\mathbb{P}^N\dashrightarrow\mathbb{P}^N be a dominant rational map. Its first dynamical degree is

δ(f)=lim⁡n→∞(deg⁡(fn))1/n.\delta(f)=\lim_{n\to\infty}\bigl(\deg(f^n)\bigr)^{1/n}.

Uniform dynamical-degree lower-bound conjecture. There exists a constant γN>0\gamma_N>0 such that, for all dominant rational maps f:PN⇢PNf:\mathbb{P}^N\dashrightarrow\mathbb{P}^N,

δ(f)≥γN⋅min⁡0≤k<Ndeg⁡(fk+1)deg⁡(fk).\delta(f)\geq\gamma_N\cdot\min_{0\leq k<N}\frac{\deg(f^{k+1})}{\deg(f^k)}.

For N=2N=2, an analogous inequality for birational maps is known with an absolute positive constant, but the stated generalization to all dimensions and dominant rational maps is posed as an open question.

References

Primary source

Joseph H. Silverman and Gregory Call, “Degeneration of Dynamical Degrees in Families of Maps”, arXiv:1609.02119 (2018).

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