We show that in normalized families of polynomial or rational maps, Misiurewicz maps (critically finite or infinite) unfold generically. For example, if $f_{{\lambda }_0}$ is critically finite with non-degenerate critical point $c_1\left({\lambda }_0\right),...,c_n\left({\lambda }_0\right)$ such that $f_{{\lambda }_0}^{k_i}\left(c_i\left({\lambda }_0\right)\right)=p_i\left({\lambda }_0\right)$ are hyperbolic periodic points for i = 1,...,n, then  IV-1. Age impartible......................................................................................................................................................................... 31  $\lambda \mapsto (f_{\lambda }^{k_1}\left(c_1\left(\lambda \right)\right)-p_1\left(\lambda \right),...,f_{\lambda }^{k_{d-2}}\left(c_{d-2}\left(\lambda \right)\right)-p_{d-2}\left(\lambda \right))$ is a local diffeomorphism...

The multifractal generalizations of Hausdorff dimension and packing dimension are investigated for an invariant subset A of a piecewise monotonic map on the interval. Formulae for the multifractal dimension of an ergodic invariant measure, the essential multifractal dimension of A, and the multifractal Hausdorff dimension of A are derived.

We study the entropy spectrum of Birkhoff averages and the dimension spectrum of Lyapunov exponents for piecewise monotone transformations on the interval. In general, these transformations do not have finite Markov partitions and do not satisfy the specification property. We characterize these multifractal spectra in terms of the Legendre transform of a suitably defined pressure function.