%0 Journal Article %T Exponential Decay of Expansive Constants %A Peng Sun %J Mathematics %D 2011 %I arXiv %X A map $f$ on a compact metric space is expansive if and only if $f^n$ is expansive. We study the exponential rate of decay of the expansive constant of $f^n$. A major result is that this rate times box dimension bounds topological entropy. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0851v1