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The positive entropy kernel for some families of trees

Esther Barrabés and David Juher

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The fact that a continuous self-map of a tree has positive topological entropy is related to the number of different greatest odd divisors (gods) exhibited by its set of periods. Llibre and Misiurewicz (1993 Topology 32 649–64) and Blokh (1992 Nonlinearity 5 1375–82) give generic upper bounds for the maximum number of gods that a zero entropy tree map f: TT can exhibit, in terms of the number of endpoints and edges of T. In this paper we compute exactly the minimum of the positive integers n such that the entropy of each tree map f: TT exhibiting more than n gods is necessarily positive, for the family of trees which have a subinterval containing all the branching points (this family includes the interval and the stars). We also compute which gods are admissible for such maps.


PACS

05.45.-a Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems

MSC

37B40 Topological entropy

37E25 Maps of trees and graphs

Subjects

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 8 (August 2007)

Received 27 December 2006, in final form 4 June 2007

Published 10 July 2007



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