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The Entropy of an Overlapping Dynamical System

Dynamical Systems 2015-03-19 v2

Abstract

The term "overlapping" refers to a certain fairly simple type of piecewise continuous function from the unit interval to itself and also to a fairly simple type of iterated function system (IFS) on the unit interval. A correspondence between these two classes of objects is used (1) to find a necessary and sufficient condition for a fractal transformation from the attractor of one overlapping IFS to the attractor of another overlapping IFS to be a homeomorphism and (2) to find a formula for the topological entropy of the dynamical system associated with an overlapping function.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6692,
  title  = {The Entropy of an Overlapping Dynamical System},
  author = {Michael F. Barnsley and Brendan Harding and Andrew Vince},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6692},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Includes correction to Lemma 6.2

R2 v1 2026-06-21T19:28:11.683Z