Equidistribution for matings of quadratic maps with the modular group

• Published in: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 859 - 887
• Main Author: MATUS DE LA PARRA, V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2024
• Subjects: Original Article; 11F32; equidistribution; holomorphic correspondences; weak modularity; 37F05; 32H99
• ISSN: 0143-3857; 1469-4417
• DOI: 10.1017/etds.2023.33

We study the asymptotic behavior of the family of holomorphic correspondences $\lbrace \mathcal {F}_a\rbrace _{a\in \mathcal {K}}$ , given by $$ \begin{align*}\bigg(\frac{az+1}{z+1}\bigg)^2+\bigg(\frac{az+1}{z+1}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{aw-1}{w-1}\bigg)+\bigg(\frac{aw-1}{w-1}\bigg)^2=3.\end{align*} $$ It was proven by Bullet and Lomonaco [Mating quadratic maps with the modular group II. Invent. Math. 220(1) (2020), 185–210] that $\mathcal {F}_a$ is a mating between the modular group $\operatorname {PSL}_2(\mathbb {Z})$ and a quadratic rational map. We show for every $a\in \mathcal {K}$ , the iterated images and preimages under $\mathcal {F}_a$ of non-exceptional points equidistribute, in spite of the fact that $\mathcal {F}_a$ is weakly modular in the sense of Dinh, Kaufmann, and Wu [Dynamics of holomorphic correspondences on Riemann surfaces. Int. J. Math. 31(05) (2020), 2050036], but it is not modular. Furthermore, we prove that periodic points equidistribute as well.