Artur Oscar Lopes

Artur Oscar Lopes (born on 17 October 1950 in the city of Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian mathematician working on dynamical systems and ergodic theory.^[1] He is a professor at UFRGS, Porto Alegre.^[2]

He earned his Ph.D. from the IMPA in 1977 under the supervision of Jacob Palis.^[3]

He is a recipient of Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit in mathematics.^[4] Since 2007 he has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.^[1]

He is the author of the textbooks Tópicos de Mecânica Clássica, Cálculo Tensorial, Teoria dos Corpos, and Equações Diferenciais Ordinárias.

Selected publications

with A. Freire and R. Mañé: "An invariant measure for rational maps", Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 1983.
"The dimension spectrum of the maximal measure", SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 1989.
with G. Contreras and P. Thieullen: "Lyapunov minimizing measures for expanding maps of the circle", Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 2001.
"The zeta function, non-differentiability of pressure, and the critical exponent of transition", Advances in Mathematics, 101 (2), pp. 133–165, 1993.

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