Uniformization of tongues in Double Standard Map family and variation of maximal chaotic sets
Kuntal Banerjee, Anubrato Bhattacharyya, Sabyasachi Mukherjee
TL;DR
The paper analyzes tongues (hyperbolic components) in the complexified Double Standard Map family g_{a,b}(z)=e^{2\pi i a} z^2 \exp(b z - b/z) and establishes a dynamically natural, real-analytic uniformization that proves each tongue interior is simply connected, via a diffeomorphism to the disk with a slit. It introduces a new invariant, the critical angle, alongside the real multiplier to parameterize tongues, and proves a real-analytic dependence of the maximal chaotic set on tongue parameters. Inside tongues, the circle dynamics on S^1 has a maximal Devaney chaotic set C_{a,b} which is a Cantor set of Lebesgue measure zero, equal to the Julia set intersection with S^1, and is shown to vary analytically in Hausdorff dimension through thermodynamic formalism and conformal repeller techniques. Outside the hyperbolic locus, the circle map is chaotic on all of S^1, while within tongues chaos is confined to C_{a,b}; the authors develop a holomorphic extension, Markov partitions, and pressure theory to code the dynamics on C_{a,b} and prove the Hausdorff dimension t_{a,b} is the unique zero of P(σ, t·\tilde{ψ}_{a,b}), with t_{a,b} varying real- analytically with (a,b). Altogether, the work provides a complete analytic description of Tongue geometry and the parameter dependence of maximal chaotic sets in the complexified DSM family, bridging quasiconformal deformation, conformal dynamics, and thermodynamic formalism.
Abstract
We study hyperbolic components, also known as tongues, in the Double Standard Map family comprising circle maps of the form: \begin{align*} f_{a,b}(x)=\left(2x+a+\dfrac{b}π \sin(2πx)\right) \mod 1,\ a \in \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z},\ 0 \leq b \leq 1. \end{align*} We prove simple connectedness of tongues by providing a dynamically natural real-analytic uniformization for each tongue. For maps in a tongue, we characterize the unique maximal subset of the circle on which $f_{a,b}$ is Devaney chaotic. We also show that the Hausdorff dimension of this maximal chaotic set varies real-analytically inside a tongue.
