Phase transitions for transitive local diffeomorphism with break points on the circle and Holder continuous potentials

Thiago Bomfim, Afonso Fernandes

Published 2023-10-10Version 1

In \cite{BC21} is shown that if $f: \mathbb{S}^{1} \rightarrow \mathbb{S}^{1}$ is a $C^{1+\alpha}$-local diffeomorphism non-invertible and non-uniformly expanding, then there is a unique parameter $t_{0} \in (0 , 1]$ such that the topological pressure function $\mathbb{R} \ni t \mapsto P_{top}(f , -t\log|Df|)$ is not analytic, in particular $f$ has phase transition with respect to potential $\phi := -\log|Df|$. On the other hand, by the works \cite{KQW21,KQ22}, for continuous potentials the topological pressure function can be wild; in particular, it can be infinite phase transitions. In this paper, we study the possibilities of behaviour of the topological pressure function and transfer operator for transitive local diffeomorphism with break points on the circle and Holder continuous potentials. In particular, we showed that: 1-that there is an open and dense subset of continuous potentials such that if a Holder continuous potential belongs to subset then it has no phase transition and the transfer operator has spectral gap property; 2-for Holder continuous potentials, not cohomologous to constant, the existence of a phase transition is equivalent to the topological pressure function not being strictly convex; 3-if a Holder continuous potential has phase transition, then the topological pressure function and the transfer operator associated have behaviour similar to \cite{BC21}. Consequently, every Holder continuous potential has at most two phase transitions and the set of smooth potential such that $\mathcal{L}_{f,\phi}$ has spectral gap, acting on the Holder continuous space, is dense in the uniform topology. Furthermore, we obtain applications for multifractal analysis of Birkhoff's average.