The preceding Etats de la recherche on this topic happened in Rennes, 2006, and the organizers of the present edition asked me to make the bridge between these two sessions. My 2006 talks were devoted to the theory of heights and equidistribution theorems for algebraic dynamical systems. I will start from there by presenting the framework allowed by Arakelov geometry, and explaining the recent manuscript of X. Yuan and S.-W. Zhang who provide a birational perspective to these concepts. The theory is a bit complex and technical but I will try to emphasize the parallel between those ideas and the ones that lie at the ground of pluripotential theory in complex analysis, or in the theory of b-divisors in algebraic geometry.[-]

In these lectures, we will examine a series of conjectures about the geometry of preperiodic points for endomorphisms of $ \mathbb{P}^{N}$. Lecture 1 will focus on the Dynamical ManinMumford Conjecture (DMM), formulated by Shouwu Zhang in the 1990s as an extension of the well-known Manin-Mumford Conjecture (which investigated the geometry of torsion points in abelian varieties and was proved in the early 1980s by Raynaud). The DMM aims to classify the subvarieties of $\mathbb{P}^{N}$ containing a Zariski-dense set of preperiodic points. Lectures 2 and 3 will be devoted to conjectures that treat families of maps on $\mathbb{P}^{N}$. One conjecture in particular was inspired by the recently-proved ”Relative Manin-Mumford” theorem of Gao-Habegger for abelian varieties, but the dynamical version turns out to be closely related to the study of dynamical stability and to contain many previously-existing questions/conjectures/results about moduli spaces of maps on $\mathbb{P}^{N}$. These lectures are based on joint work with Myrto Mavraki.[-]

The group Aut($\mathbb{A}^{n}$) of polynomial automorphisms of the a ne space is an interesting huge group, and a slightly simpler group is its subgroup Aut($\mathbb{A}^{n}$) of tame automorphisms. Natural questions about these groups include:– does they admit normal subgroups beside the obvious subgroup of automorphisms with Jacobian 1?– do they satisfy a Tits alternative?– what are the possible dynamical degrees of their elements? The method to investigate these questions is via some actions on some metric spaces, namely the coset complex and the valuation complex, that we plan to introduce in detail. The lectures will focus on the following three cases: the group Aut($\mathbb{A}^{2}$) = Tame($\mathbb{A}^{2}$) following Chapter 7 of my book in preparation, then the group Tame($\mathbb{A}^{3}$) (Lamy, LamyPrzytycki, Blanc-Van Santen), and finally the group Tame(Q($\mathbb{A}^{4}$)) of tame automorphisms of $\mathbb{A}^{4}$ preserving a nondegenerate quadratic form (Bisi-Furter-Lamy, Martin, Dang).[-]

In these lectures, we will examine a series of conjectures about the geometry of preperiodic points for endomorphisms of $ \mathbb{P}^{N}$. Lecture 1 will focus on the Dynamical ManinMumford Conjecture (DMM), formulated by Shouwu Zhang in the 1990s as an extension of the well-known Manin-Mumford Conjecture (which investigated the geometry of torsion points in abelian varieties and was proved in the early 1980s by Raynaud). The DMM aims to classify the subvarieties of $\mathbb{P}^{N}$ containing a Zariski-dense set of preperiodic points. Lectures 2 and 3 will be devoted to conjectures that treat families of maps on $\mathbb{P}^{N}$. One conjecture in particular was inspired by the recently-proved ”Relative Manin-Mumford” theorem of Gao-Habegger for abelian varieties, but the dynamical version turns out to be closely related to the study of dynamical stability and to contain many previously-existing questions/conjectures/results about moduli spaces of maps on $\mathbb{P}^{N}$. These lectures are based on joint work with Myrto Mavraki.[-]

In these lectures, we will examine a series of conjectures about the geometry of preperiodic points for endomorphisms of $ \mathbb{P}^{N}$. Lecture 1 will focus on the Dynamical ManinMumford Conjecture (DMM), formulated by Shouwu Zhang in the 1990s as an extension of the well-known Manin-Mumford Conjecture (which investigated the geometry of torsion points in abelian varieties and was proved in the early 1980s by Raynaud). The DMM aims to classify the subvarieties of $\mathbb{P}^{N}$ containing a Zariski-dense set of preperiodic points. Lectures 2 and 3 will be devoted to conjectures that treat families of maps on $\mathbb{P}^{N}$. One conjecture in particular was inspired by the recently-proved ”Relative Manin-Mumford” theorem of Gao-Habegger for abelian varieties, but the dynamical version turns out to be closely related to the study of dynamical stability and to contain many previously-existing questions/conjectures/results about moduli spaces of maps on $\mathbb{P}^{N}$. These lectures are based on joint work with Myrto Mavraki.[-]

The group of tame automorphisms. The group Aut($\mathbb{A}^{n}$) of polynomial automorphisms of the a ne space is an interesting huge group, and a slightly simpler group is its subgroup Aut($\mathbb{A}^{n}$) of tame automorphisms. Natural questions about these groups include:– does they admit normal subgroups beside the obvious subgroup of automorphisms with Jacobian 1?– do they satisfy a Tits alternative?– what are the possible dynamical degrees of their elements? The method to investigate these questions is via some actions on some metric spaces, namely the coset complex and the valuation complex, that we plan to introduce in detail. The lectures will focus on the following three cases: the group Aut($\mathbb{A}^{2}$) = Tame($\mathbb{A}^{2}$) following Chapter 7 of my book in preparation, then the group Tame($\mathbb{A}^{3}$) (Lamy, LamyPrzytycki, Blanc-Van Santen), and finally the group Tame(Q($\mathbb{A}^{4}$)) of tame automorphisms of $\mathbb{A}^{4}$ preserving a nondegenerate quadratic form (Bisi-Furter-Lamy, Martin, Dang).[-]

The group of tame automorphisms. The group Aut($\mathbb{A}^{n}$) of polynomial automorphisms of the a ne space is an interesting huge group, and a slightly simpler group is its subgroup Aut($\mathbb{A}^{n}$) of tame automorphisms. Natural questions about these groups include:– does they admit normal subgroups beside the obvious subgroup of automorphisms with Jacobian 1?– do they satisfy a Tits alternative?– what are the possible dynamical degrees of their elements? The method to investigate these questions is via some actions on some metric spaces, namely the coset complex and the valuation complex, that we plan to introduce in detail. The lectures will focus on the following three cases: the group Aut($\mathbb{A}^{2}$) = Tame($\mathbb{A}^{2}$) following Chapter 7 of my book in preparation, then the group Tame($\mathbb{A}^{3}$) (Lamy, LamyPrzytycki, Blanc-Van Santen), and finally the group Tame(Q($\mathbb{A}^{4}$)) of tame automorphisms of $\mathbb{A}^{4}$ preserving a nondegenerate quadratic form (Bisi-Furter-Lamy, Martin, Dang).[-]