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LI–YORKE CHAOS ALMOST EVERYWHERE: ON THE PERVASIVENESS OF DISJOINT EXTREMALLY SCRAMBLED SETS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

LIUCHUN DENG*
Affiliation:
Social Sciences Division, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
M. ALI KHAN
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA e-mail: akhan@jhu.edu
ASHVIN V. RAJAN
Affiliation:
3935 Cloverhill Road, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA e-mail: ashvinrj@aol.com
*

Abstract

We show that there exists a continuous function from the unit Lebesgue interval to itself such that for any $\epsilon \geq 0$ and any natural number k, any point in its domain has an $\epsilon $ -neighbourhood which, when feasible, contains k mutually disjoint extremally scrambled sets of identical Lebesgue measure, homeomorphic to each other. This result enables a satisfying generalisation of Li–Yorke (topological) chaos and suggests an open (difficult) problem as to whether the result is valid for piecewise linear functions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Liuchun Deng acknowledges the support of a start-up grant from Yale-NUS College.

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