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Unimodal expanding maps of the interval

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Bau-Sen Du
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica Nankang Taipei, Taiwan, 11529, Republic of China
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Let I = [0, 1] and let f be an unimodal expanding map in C0(I, I). If f has an expanding constant for some integers m ≧ 0 and n ≧ 1, where λn is the unique positive zero of the polynomial x2n+1 − 2x2n−1 −1, then we show that f has a periodic point of period 2m(2n + 1). The converse of the above result is trivially false. The condition in the above result is the best possible in the sense that we cannot have the same conclusion if the number λn is replaced by any smaller positive number and the generalisation of the above result to arbitrary piecewise monotonic expanding maps in C0(I, I) is not possible.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1988

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