Dynamics of elementary maps of dendrites

The notion of elementary map of a dendrite into itself is introduced. Arithmetical relations between the periods of periodic points are given; the structure ofω-limit sets, sets of periodic and nonwandering points is described; the topological entropy of elementary maps is shown to be equal to 0. Examples are given illustrating the differences in the entropic properties of continuous maps of dendrites with a countable set of branch points and continuous maps of their retracts which are finite trees. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 183–195, February, 1998. This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant No. 96-01-01755.     

Tree maps having chain movable fixed points

In this paper we discuss some basic properties of chain reachable sets and chain equivalent sets of continuous maps. It is proved that if f:T→T is a tree map which has a chain movable fixed point v, and the chain equivalent set CE(v,f) is not contained in the set P(f) of periodic points of f, then there exists a positive integer p not greater than the number of points in the set End([CE(v,f)])−Pv(f) such that fp is turbulent, and the topological entropy . This result generalizes the corresponding results given in Block and Coven (1986) [2], Guo et al. (2003) [6], Sun and Liu (2003) [10], Ye (2000) [11], Zhang and Zeng (2004) [12]. In addition, in this paper we also consider metric spaces which may not be trees but have open subsets U such that the closures are trees. Maps of such metric spaces which have chain movable fixed points are discussed.     

Kneading sequences for unimodal expanding maps of the interval

LetP andAC be two primary sequences with min{P, AC}≥RLR ^∞,ρ(P) and ρ(AC) be the eigenvalues ofP andAC, respectively. Letf∈C ⁰ (I, I) be a unimodal expanding map with expanding constant λ and m be a nonegative integer. It is proved thatf has the kneading sequenceK(f)≥(RC) ^*m *P if λ≥(ρ(P))^1/2m, andK(f)>(RC) ^*m*AC*E for any shift maximal sequenceE if λ>(ρ(AC))^1/2m. The value of (ρ(P))^1/2m or (ρ(AC))^1/2m is the best possible in the sense that the related conclusion may not be true if it is replaced by any smaller one. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China     

The Smale horseshoes in a class of non-invertible maps in with two-direction instability

We study the existence of Smale horseshoes of new type and the uniformly hyperbolic invariant sets for a class of non-invertible maps in three-dimensional Euclidean spaces with the dimension of instability equal to two. Parameter regions are given, for which the map has a horseshoe and a uniformly hyperbolic invariant set on which the map is topologically conjugate to the two-sided fullshift on four symbols.     

On the dynamics of composition of commuting interval maps

Let be two commuting continuous maps. We establish some results on the topological dynamic shared by both maps and state some conditions to get that the topological entropy of the composition f○g will be positive.     

The existence of a linear horseshoe of continuous maps of dendrites

Assume that a continuous map f defined on a dendrite X has a horseshoe (A, B), where A and B are nonempty disjoint subcontinua in X. In this paper we obtain conditions for the structure of sets A and B under which some iteration of f has a linear horseshoe.     

Circle maps having an infinite -limit set which contains a periodic orbit have positive topological entropy

Let be a continuous map from the circle to itself. The main result of this paper is that the topological entropy of is positive if and only if has an infinite -limit set which contains a periodic orbit.

     

The transversal homoclinic point of a saddle-node implies horseshoe

A method of identifying the existence of horseshoe for a two-dimension diffeomorphism is introduced and utilized to generalize the Birkhoff-Smale Theorem to the saddle-node case. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19531070).     

连续自映射拓扑压的两个注记

令T:X→ X是紧度量空间(X,d)上的连续映射.该文给出了T的拓扑压和T在非游荡集上的限制的拓扑压相等的不依赖于变分原理的一个直接证明.同时,还讨论了半共轭的两个系统的拓扑压之间的关系,证明了拓扑压在一致有限对一条件下是半共轭不变量.     

On essential entropy-carrying sets

In this paper we study properties of essential entropy-carrying sets of a continuous map on a compact metric space. If f:X→X$f:X\to X$ is continuous on a compact metric space X, then the intersection of all essential entropy-carrying sets of f may or may not be an essential entropy-carrying set of f  . When this intersection is an essential entropy-carrying set we denote it by E(f)$E(f)$, the least essential entropy-carrying set, otherwise we say that E(f)$E(f)$ does not exist. We present an example where E(f)$E(f)$ does not exist but also find a sufficient condition for E(f)$E(f)$ to exist. If f   is a piecewise monotone map, we show that E(f)$E(f)$ exists and is the finite union of the entropy-carrying sets in the Nitecki Decomposition of the nonwandering set of f intersected with the closure of the periodic points of f  . When E(f)$E(f)$ exists we study how it relates to other entropy-carrying sets of f including subsets of itself.     

Computing topological entropy for periodic sequences of unimodal maps

In this paper we introduce an algorithm which allows us to compute the topological entropy of a class of piecewise monotone continuous interval maps. The algorithm can be applied to a class of economic models called duopolies, and it can be useful to compute the topological entropy of periodic sequences of continuous maps which have been used in some population growth models.     

On the topological entropy of the free semigroup action generated by proper maps

In this paper, we introduce the topological entropy of a free semigroup action generated by proper maps, which extends the notions of the topological entropy of the free semigroup actions defined by Bufetov in 1999 and topological entropy of the proper maps defined by Patrão in 2010. We then give some properties of these notions and discuss the relations between them. We also give a partial variational principle for locally compact separable metric spaces. Moreover, the relationship between topological entropy of the free semigroup generated by proper maps and topological entropy of a skew-product transformation is given. These results extend the results obtained by Patrão, Bufetov and Lin, Ma and Wang in 2018.     

The nonexistence of sensitive commutative group actions on dendrites

In this paper, using the integral method observed by Mai Jiehua recently, we show that no dendrite admits a sensitive commutative group action.     

Fixed points for convex continuous mappings in topological vector spaces

We prove the following result. Let be a convex compact subset in a topological vector space, and a convex continuous mapping. (See Definition 1.1.) Then has a fixed point. Moreover, continuous mappings that can be approximated by convex continuous mappings also have the fixed point property.

     

Approximation of continuous set-valued maps by constant set-valued maps with image balls

It is shown that the problem of the best uniform approximation in the Hausdorff metric of a continuous set-valued map with finite-dimensional compact convex images by constant set-valued maps whose images are balls in some norm can be reduced to a visual geometric problem. The latter consists in constructing a spherical layer of minimal thickness which contains the complement of a compact convex set to a larger compact convex set.     

Scrambled sets of continuous maps of 1-dimensional polyhedra

Let be a 1-dimensional simplicial complex in without isolated vertexes, be the polyhedron of with the metric induced by , and be a continuous map. In this paper we prove that if is finite, then the interior of every scrambled set of in is empty. We also show that if is an infinite complex, then there exist continuous maps from to itself having scrambled sets with nonempty interiors, and if or , then there exist maps of with the whole space being a scrambled set.

     

On distributionally chaotic and null systems

By a topological dynamical system, we mean a pair (X,f), where X is a compactum and f is a continuous self-map on X. A system is said to be null if its topological sequence entropies are zero along all strictly increasing sequences of natural numbers. We show that there exists a null system which is distributionally chaotic. This system admits open distributionally scrambled sets, and its collection of all maximal distributionally scrambled sets has the same cardinality as the collection of all subsets of the phase space. Finally such system can even exist on continua.     

关于S~1上扩张映射的拓扑熵的改进

对文献 [1 ]中圆周上扩张映射的拓扑熵的结论给予了改进 ,得到了结论 :设 f∈ Cr(S1 ,S1 )是扩张映射 ,则 ent(f) =log|deg(f) |.