Dynamics of inner functions revisited

Jon Aaronson, Mahendra Nadkarni

Published 2023-05-24Version 1

The circle restrictions of inner functions of the unit disc are nonsingular maps of the circle. We study their structure showing that the local invertibility of a restriction is independent of its singularity set. We also study the spectral theory of the transfer operators of a probability preserving inner functions, establishing a spectral gap and some central limit properties of stochastic processes driven by them as a consequence of suitable analytic perturbations of the transfer operators.