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Entropy and exact Devaney chaos on totally regular continua

Dynamical Systems 2012-03-14 v2

Abstract

We study topological entropy of exactly Devaney chaotic maps on totally regular continua, i.e. on (topologically) rectifiable curves. After introducing the so-called P-Lipschitz maps (where P is a finite invariant set) we give an upper bound for their topological entropy. We prove that if a non-degenerate totally regular continuum X contains a free arc which does not disconnect X or if X contains arbitrarily large generalized stars then X admits an exactly Devaney chaotic map with arbitrarily small entropy. A possible application for further study of the best lower bounds of topological entropies of transitive/Devaney chaotic maps is indicated.

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@article{arxiv.1112.6017,
  title  = {Entropy and exact Devaney chaos on totally regular continua},
  author = {Vladimír Špitalský},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.6017},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

18 pages; the construction of length-expanding Lipschitz maps was moved into arXiv:1203.2352

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