Necessary conditions are found for a Cantor subset of the circle to be minimal for some $C^1$-diffeomorphism. These conditions are not satisfied by the usual ternary Cantor set.

Let K(2ℕ) be the class of compact subsets of the Cantor space 2ℕ, furnished with the Hausdorff metric. Let f ∈ C(2ℕ). We study the map ω f: 2ℕ → K(2ℕ) defined as ω f (x) = ω(x, f), the ω-limit set of x under f. Unlike the case of n-dimensional manifolds, n ≥ 1, we show that ω f is continuous for the generic self-map f of the Cantor space, even though the set of functions for which ω f is everywhere discontinuous on a subsystem is dense in C(2ℕ). The relationships between the continuity of ω f and...

A homeomorphism f : X → X of a compactum X is expansive (resp. continuum-wise expansive) if there is c > 0 such that if x, y ∈ X and x ≠ y (resp. if A is a nondegenerate subcontinuum of X), then there is n ∈ ℤ such that $d(f^n\left(x\right),f^n\left(y\right))>c$ (resp. $diam{f}^n\left(A\right)>c$). We prove the following theorem: If f is a continuum-wise expansive homeomorphism of a compactum X and the covering dimension of X is positive (dim X > 0), then there exists a σ-chaotic continuum Z = Z(σ) of f (σ = s or σ = u), i.e. Z is a nondegenerate subcontinuum...

In this paper we study the commutativity property for topological sequence entropy. We prove that if $X$ is a compact metric space and $f,g:X\to X$ are continuous maps then $h_A(f\circ g)=h_A(g\circ f)$ for every increasing sequence $A$ if $X=[0,1]$, and construct a counterexample for the general case. In the interim, we also show that the equality $h_A\left(f\right)=h_A(f{|}_{{\cap }_{n\ge 0}{f}^n\left(X\right)})$ is true if $X=[0,1]$ but does not necessarily hold if $X$ is an arbitrary compact metric space.

Modifying Bowen's entropy, we introduce a new uniform entropy. We prove that the completion theorem for uniform entropy holds in the class of all metric spaces. However, the completion theorem for Bowen's entropy does not hold in the class of all totally bounded metric spaces.

The horseshoe or bucket handle continuum, defined as the inverse limit of the tent map, is one of the standard examples in continua theory as well as in dynamical systems. It is not arcwise connected. Its arcwise components coincide with composants, and with unstable manifolds in the dynamical setting. Knaster asked whether these composants are all homeomorphic, with the obvious exception of the zero composant. Partial results were obtained by Bellamy (1979), Dębski and Tymchatyn (1987), and Aarts...

Let $W\left(I\right)$ denote the family of continuous maps $f$ from an interval $I=[a,b]$ into itself such that (1) $f\left(a\right)=f\left(b\right)\in \{a,b\}$; (2) they consist of two monotone pieces; and (3) they have periodic points of periods exactly all powers of $2$. The main aim of this paper is to compute explicitly the topological sequence entropy $h_D\left(f\right)$ of any map $f\in W\left(I\right)$ respect to the sequence $D={\left(2^{m-1}\right)}_{m=1}^{\infty }$.