We show that there are (1) nonhomogeneous metric continua that admit minimal noninvertible maps but have the fixed point property for homeomorphisms, and (2) nonhomogeneous metric continua that admit both minimal noninvertible maps and minimal homeomorphisms. The former continua are constructed as quotient spaces of the torus or as subsets of the torus, the latter are constructed as subsets of the torus.

For continuous maps of an interval into itself we consider cycles (periodic orbits) that are non-reducible in the sense that there is no non-trivial partition into blocks of consecutive points permuted by the map. Among them we identify the miror ones. They are those whose existence does not imply existence of other non-reducible cycles of the same period. Moreover, we find minor patterns of a given period with minimal entropy.

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.

Let F be a homeomorphism of 𝕋² = ℝ²/ℤ² isotopic to the identity and f a lift to the universal covering space ℝ². We suppose that κ ∈ H¹(𝕋²,ℝ) is a cohomology class which is positive on the rotation set of f. We prove the existence of a smooth Lyapunov function of f whose derivative lifts a non-vanishing smooth closed form on 𝕋² whose cohomology class is κ.