Mass growth of objects and categorical entropy

Abstract

In the pioneer work by Dimitrov-Haiden-Katzarkov-Kontsevich, they introduced various categorical analogies from classical theory of dynamical systems. In particular, they defined the entropy of an endofunctor on a triangulated category with a split generator. In the connection between categorical theory and classical theory, a stability condition on a triangulated category plays the role of a measured foliation so that one can measure the "volume" of objects, called the mass, via the stability condition. The aim of this paper is to establish fundamental properties of the growth rate of mass of objects under the mapping by the endofunctor and to clarify the relationship between the entropy and that. We also show that they coincide under a certain condition.