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Generic continuous Lebesgue measure-preserving interval maps are nowhere monotone but invertible a.e

Dynamical Systems 2026-02-06 v3

Abstract

We consider continuous maps of the interval which preserve the Lebesgue measure. Except for the identity map or 1\id1 - \id all such maps have topological entropy at least log2/2\log2/2 and generically they have infinite topological entropy. In this article we show that the generic map has zero measure-theoretic entropy. This implies that there are dramatic differences in the topological versus measure-theoretic behavior both for injectivity as well as for the structure of the level sets of generic maps. As a consequence we get a surprising corollary for a family of planar attractors homeomorphic to the pseudo-arcs.

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@article{arxiv.2405.09917,
  title  = {Generic continuous Lebesgue measure-preserving interval maps are nowhere monotone but invertible a.e},
  author = {Jozef Bobok and Jernej Činč and Piotr Oprocha and Serge Troubetzkoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09917},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

1) The title has changed, the introduction has been reorganized and section 5 has been added, in this section we give an application to planar attractors.2) Minor changes after referee report, the article will appear in Studia Mathematica