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Title: Inner Functions and Laminations
(Submitted on 5 May 2024)
Abstract: In this paper, we study orbit counting problems for inner functions using geodesic and horocyclic flows on Riemann surface laminations. For a one component inner function of finite Lyapunov exponent with $F(0) = 0$, other than $z \to z^d$, we show that the number of pre-images of a point $z \in \mathbb{D} \setminus \{ 0\}$ that lie in a ball of hyperbolic radius $R$ centered at the origin satisfies $$ \mathcal{N}(z, R) \, \sim \, \frac{1}{2} \log \frac{1}{|z|} \cdot \frac{1}{\int_{\partial \mathbb{D}} \log |F'| dm}, \quad \text{as }R \to \infty. $$ For a general inner function of finite Lyapunov exponent, we show that the above formula holds up to a Ces\`aro average. Our main insight is that iteration along almost every inverse orbit is asymptotically linear. We also prove analogues of these results for parabolic inner functions of infinite height.
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