Jonqui\`eres maps and $\mathrm{SL}(2;\mathbb{C})$-cocycles

Abstract

We start the study of the family of birational maps $(f_{\alpha,\beta})$ of $\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}$ in \cite{Deserti}. For generic $\alpha$ and $\beta$ of modulus 1 the centraliser of $f_{\alpha,\beta}$ is trivial, the topological entropy of $f_{\alpha,\beta}$ is 0, there exist two areas of linearisation: in the first one the closure of the orbit of a point is a torus, in the other one the closure of the orbit of a point is the union of two circles. On $\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}\times \mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}$ any $f_{\alpha,\beta}$ can be viewed as a cocyle; using recent results about $\mathrm{SL}(2;\mathbb{C})$-cocycles (\cite{Avila}) we determine the \textsc{Lyapunov} exponent of the cocyle associated to $f_{\alpha,\beta}$.