Conformal Fractals : Ergodic Theory Methods (Paperback)

Introduction; Basic examples and definitions; 1. Measure preserving endomorphisms; 2. Compact metric spaces; 3. Distance expanding maps; 4. Thermodynamical formalism; 5. Expanding repellers in manifolds and in the Riemann sphere, preliminaries; 6. Cantor repellers in the line, Sullivan's scaling function, application in Feigenbaum universality; 7. Fractal dimensions; 8. Conformal expanding repellers; 9. Sullivan's classification of conformal expanding repellers; 10. Holomorphic maps with invariant probability measures of positive Lyapunov exponent; 11. Conformal measures; References; Index.