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Adding machines and wild attractors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

HENK BRUIN
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstr. 1 1/2, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
GERHARD KELLER
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstr. 1 1/2, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
MATTHIAS ST. PIERRE
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstr. 1 1/2, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany

Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of unimodal maps $f$ of the interval restricted to the omega limit set $X$ of the critical point for cases where $X$ is a Cantor set. In particular, many cases where $X$ is a measure attractor of $f$ are included. We give two classes of examples of such maps, both generalizing unimodal Fibonacci maps [LM, BKNS]. In all cases $f_{|X}$ is a continuous factor of a generalized odometer (an adding machine-like dynamical system), and at the same time $f_{|X}$ factors onto an irrational circle rotation. In some of the examples we obtain irrational rotations on more complicated groups as factors.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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