Artin-Mazur zeta function

In maths, the Artin-Mazur zeta-function is a tool for studying the iterated functions that occur in dynamical systems and fractals.

It is defined as the formal power series

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, where Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math temp directory): \\textrm{Fix}(f^n)

is the set of fixed points of the n-th iterate of an iterated function f, and Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math temp directory): \\textrm{card}  \\left(\\textrm{Fix} (f^n)\\right)
is the cardinality of this set of fixed points.


Note that the zeta-function is defined only if the set of fixed points is finite. This definition is formal in that it does not always have a positive radius of convergence.

The Artin-Mazur zeta-function is not invariant under topological conjugation.

The Milnor-Thurston theorem states that the Artin-Mazur zeta-function is the inverse of the kneading determinant of f.

The Artin-Mazur zeta-function is equivalent to the Weil zeta-function when there is a diffeomorphism on a compact manifold.

Under certain cases, the Artin-Mazur zeta-function can be related to the Ihara zeta-function of a graph.