Tropical thermodynamic formalism

Abstract: We investigate the correspondence between thermodynamic formalism and ergodic optimization. It has been known that the Bousch operator $\mathcal{L}_A$ is tropical linear and corresponds to the Ruelle operator $\mathcal{R}_A$. In this paper, we present general idempotent analysis (tropical algebra) results, define the tropical adjoint operator $\mathcal{L}_A^{\ostar}$ which corresponds to $\mathcal{R}_A^{*}$, and study the existence and generic uniqueness of tropical eigen-densities of $\mathcal{L}_A^{\ostar}$. We also investigate the Logarithmic type zero temperature limit of equilibrium states which implies the large deviation principle. It turns out that the rate function is the tropical product of a calibrated sub-action and a tropical eigen-density.