Entropy of the Serre functor for partially wrapped Fukaya categories of surfaces with stops

We prove that the entropy of the Serre functor $\mathbb{S}$ in the partially wrapped Fukaya category of a graded surface $Σ$ with stops is given by the function sending $t \in \mathbb{R}$ to $ h_t(\mathbb{S}) = (1-\min Ω)t$, for $t\geq 0$, and to $h_t(\mathbb{S})=(1-\max Ω)t$, for $t\leq 0$, where $Ω= {\frac{ω_1}{m_1} \ldots, \frac{ω_b}{m_b},0}$, and $ω_i$ is the winding number of the $i$th boundary component $\partial_iΣ$ of the surface with $b$ boundary components and $m_i$ stops on $\partial_i Σ$. It then follows that the upper and lower Serre dimensions are given by $1-\min Ω$ and $1-\max Ω$, respectively. Furthermore, in the case of a finite dimensional gentle algebra $A$, we show that a Gromov-Yomdin-like equality holds by relating the categorical entropy of the Serre functor of the perfect derived category of $A$ to the logarithm of the spectral radius of the Coxeter transformation.

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The paper investigates the categorical entropy of the Serre functor in the partially wrapped Fukaya category of a graded surface with stops. Let Σ be an oriented compact surface with b boundary components ∂₁,…,∂_b, each equipped with m_i ≥ 1 stops and a winding number ω_i. Denote Ω = { ω_i/m_i | i = 1,…,b } ∪ {0}. The main theorem (Theorem 2.10) shows that for the Serre functor S of the partially wrapped Fukaya category W(Σ,M,η) one has
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