In this paper, recent results on the existence and uniqueness of (continuous and homeomorphic) solutions φ of the equation φ ∘ f = g ∘ φ (f and g are given self-maps of an interval or the circle) are surveyed. Some applications of these results as well as the outcomes concerning systems of such equations are also presented.
Under very mild assumptions, any Lipschitz continuous conjugacy between the closures of the postcritical sets of two C¹-unimodal maps has a derivative at the critical point, and also on a dense set of its preimages. In a more restrictive situation of infinitely renormalizable maps of bounded combinatorial type the Lipschitz condition automatically implies the C¹-smoothness of the conjugacy. Here the critical degree can be any real number α > 1.