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# Examples of coarse expanding conformal maps

• In previous work, a class of noninvertible topological dynamical systems $f: X \to X$ was introduced and studied; we called these topologically coarse expanding conformal systems. To such a system is naturally associated a preferred quasisymmetry (indeed, snowflake) class of metrics in which arbitrary iterates distort roundness and ratios of diameters by controlled amounts; we called this metrically coarse expanding conformal. In this note we extend the class of examples to several more familiar settings, give applications of our general methods, and discuss implications for the computation of conformal dimension.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 30L10, 37F20; Secondary: 28A80.

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