Paper
Degree growth of skew pentagram maps
Authors
Max Weinreich
Abstract
Skew pentagram maps act on polygons by intersecting diagonals of different lengths. They were introduced by Khesin-Soloviev in 2015 as conjecturally non-integrable generalizations of the pentagram map, a well-known integrable system. In this paper, we show that certain skew pentagram maps have exponential degree growth and no preserved fibration. To formalize this, we introduce a general notion of first dynamical degree for lattice maps, or shift-invariant self-maps of . We show that the dynamical degree of any equal-length pentagram map is 1, but that there are infinitely many skew pentagram maps with dynamical degree 4.