Appears in collection : Etats de la recherche: Arithmetic, Algebraic and Analytics Dynamics / Etats de la recherche: Dynamique arithmétique, algébrique, et analytique
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.