Dynamics of Chebyshev endomorphisms on some affine algebraic varieties

Abstract

Chebyshev polynomials in one variable are typical chaotic maps on the complex 1-space. Chebyshev endomorphisms f on the complex n-space A are also chaotic. The endomorphisms f induce mappings on the quotient space A/G, where G is the dihedral group of order 2(n+1). Using invariant theory we embed A/G as an affine subvariety X in the complex m-space. Then we have morphisms g on X. We study the chaotic properties of g when n = 2 and 3.