Minimally critical regular endomorphisms of A^N

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a class of endomorphisms of A^N which restricts, when N = 1, to the class of unicritical polynomials. Over the complex numbers, we obtain lower bounds on the sum of Lyapunov exponents, and a statement which generalizes the compactness of the Mandelbrot set. Over the algebraic numbers, we obtain estimates on the critical height, and over general algebraically closed fields we obtain some rigidity results for post-critically finite morphisms of this form.