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A transitive homeomorphism on the Lelek fan

Dynamical Systems 2022-10-24 v2

Abstract

Let XX be a continuum and let φ:XX\varphi:X\rightarrow X be a homeomorphism. To construct a dynamical system (X,φ)(X,\varphi) with interesting dynamical properties, the continuum XX often needs to have some complicated topological structure. In this paper, we are interested in one such dynamical property: transitivity. By now, various examples of continua XX have been constructed in such a way that the dynamical system (X,φ)(X,\varphi) is transitive. Mostly, they are examples of continua that are not path-connected, such as the pseudo-arc or the pseudo-circle, or they are examples of locally connected continua (and every locally connected continuum is path-connected), Wazewski's universal dendrite and the Sierpinski carpet are such examples. In this paper, we present an example of a dynamical system (X,φ)(X,\varphi), where φ\varphi is a homeomorphism on the continuum XX and XX is a path-connected but not locally connected continuum. We construct a transitive homeomorphism on the Lelek fan. As a by-product, a non-invertible transitive map on the Lelek fan is also constructed.

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@article{arxiv.2209.07609,
  title  = {A transitive homeomorphism on the Lelek fan},
  author = {Iztok Banič and Goran Erceg and Judy Kennedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07609},
  year   = {2022}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2206.00087

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