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Jozef Bobok

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arXiv2026

On Lebesgue measure preserving Besicovitch functions

We consider the space $C_{\lambda}$ of all continuous interval maps preserving the Lebesgue measure $\lambda$. A continuous function $f\colon~[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ is called Besicovitch if it does not have any finite or infinite unilateral derivative. It is known that the set of Besicovitch functions in $C_{\lambda}$ is nonempty and meager. We prove that no Besicovitch function is invertible $\lambda$-almost everywhere. As a consequence, every Besicovitch function in $C_{\lambda}$ has positive measure-theoretic entropy with respect to $\lambda$. Furthermore, we show that Besicovitch functions are dense in $C_{\lambda}$ and, consequently, also dense in the class of interval maps with a dense set of periodic points.

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arXiv2024

Generic continuous Lebesgue measure-preserving interval maps are nowhere monotone but invertible a.e

We consider continuous maps of the interval which preserve the Lebesgue measure. Except for the identity map or $1 - \id$ all such maps have topological entropy at least $\log2/2$ and generically they have infinite topological entropy. In this article we show that the generic map has zero measure-theoretic entropy. This implies that there are dramatic differences in the topological versus measure-theoretic behavior both for injectivity as well as for the structure of the level sets of generic maps. As a consequence we get a surprising corollary for a family of planar attractors homeomorphic to the pseudo-arcs.

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arXiv2024

Interval maps with dense periodicity

We consider the class of interval maps with dense set of periodic points CP and its closure Cl(CP) equipped with the metric of uniform convergence. Besides studying basic topological properties and density results in the spaces CP and Cl(CP) we prove that Cl(CP) is dynamically characterized as the set of interval maps for which every point is chain-recurrent. Furthermore, we prove that a strong topological expansion property called topological exactness (or leo property) is attained on the open dense set of maps in CP and on a residual set in Cl(CP). Moreover, we show that every second category set in CP and Cl(CP) is rich in a sense that it contains uncountably many conjugacy classes. An analogous conclusion also holds in the setting of interval maps preserving any fixed non-atomic probability measure with full support. Finally, we give a detailed description of the structure of periodic points of generic maps in CP and Cl(CP) and show that generic maps in CP and Cl(CP) satisfy the shadowing property.

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arXiv2022

Are generic dynamical properties stable under composition with rotations?

In this paper we provide a detailed topological and measure-theoretic study of Lebesgue measure-preserving circle maps that are rotated with inner and outer rotations which are independent of each other. In particular, we analyze the stability of the locally eventually onto and measure-theoretic mixing properties.

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arXiv2021

Periodic points and shadowing property for generic Lebesgue measure preserving interval maps

We show that for the generic continuous maps of the interval and circle which preserve the Lebesgue measure it holds for each k $\ge$ 1 that the set of periodic points of period k is a Cantor set of Hausdorff dimension zero and of upper box dimension one. Furthermore, building on this result, we show that there is a dense collection of transitive Lebesgue measure preserving interval map whose periodic points have full Lebesgue measure and whose periodic points of period k have positive measure for each k $\ge$ 1. Finally, we show that the generic continuous maps of the interval which preserve the Lebesgue measure satisfy the shadowing and periodic shadowing property.

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arXiv2021

S-limit shadowing is generic for continuous Lebesgue measure preserving circle maps

In this paper we show that generic continuous Lebesgue measure preserving circle maps have the s-limit shadowing property. In addition we obtain that s-limit shadowing is a generic property also for continuous circle maps. In particular, this implies that classical shadowing, periodic shadowing and limit shadowing are generic in these two settings as well.

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arXiv2020

Typical properties of interval maps preserving the Lebesgue measure

Let us denote $λ$ the Lebesgue measure on $[0,1]$, put$$ C(λ)=\{f\in C([0,1]);\ \forall~A\subset [0,1], A~\text{Borel}:\ λ(A)=λ(f^{-1}(A))\}.$$ We endow the set $C(λ)$ by the uniform metric $ρ$ and investigate dynamical properties of typical maps in the complete metric space $(C(λ),ρ)$.

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arXiv2019

A Besicovitch-Morse function preserving the Lebesgue measure

We continue the investigation of which non-dierentiable maps can occur in the framework of ergodic theory started in [2]. We construct a Besicovitch-Morse function map which preserves the Lebesgue measure. We also show that the set of Besicovitch functions is of rst category in the set of continuous functions which preserve the Lebesgue measure.

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arXiv2018

Constant slope, entropy and horseshoes for a map on a tame graph

We study continuous countably (strictly) monotone maps defined on a tame graph, i.e., a special Peano continuum for which the set containing branchpoints and endpoints has a countable closure. In our investigation we confine ourselves to the countable Markov case. We show a necessary and sufficient condition under which a locally eventually onto, countably Markov map $f$ of a tame graph $G$ is conjugate to a constant slope map $g$ of a countably affine tame graph. In particular, we show that in the case of a Markov map $f$ that corresponds to recurrent transition matrix, the condition is satisfied for constant slope $e^{h_{\operatorname{top}}(f)}$, where $h_{\operatorname{top}}(f)$ is the topological entropy of $f$. Moreover, we show that in our class the topological entropy $h_{\operatorname{top}}(f)$ is achievable through horseshoes of the map $f$.

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arXiv2017

The Infimum of Lipschitz Constants in the Conjugacy Class of an Interval Map

How can we interpret the infimum of Lipschitz constants in a conjugacy class of interval maps? For positive entropy maps, the exponential of the topological entropy gives a well-known lower bound. We show that for piecewise monotone interval maps as well as for $C^{\infty}$ interval maps, these two quantities are equal, but for countably piecewise monotone maps, the inequality can be strict. Moreover, in the topologically mixing and Markov case, we characterize the infimum of Lipschitz constants as the exponential of the Salama entropy of a certain reverse Markov chain associated with the map. Dynamically, this number represents the exponential growth rate of the number of iterated preimages of nearly any point.

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arXiv2016

Constant slope maps and the Vere-Jones classification

We study continuous countably piecewise monotone interval maps, and formulate conditions under which these are conjugate to maps of constant slope, particularly when this slope is given by the topological entropy of the map. We confine our investigation to the Markov case and phrase our conditions in the terminology of the Vere-Jones classification of infinite matrices.

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arXiv2012

Homotopical rigidity of polygonal billiards

Consider two $k$-gons $P$ and $Q$. We say that the billiard flows in $P$ and $Q$ are homotopically equivalent if the set of conjugacy classes in the fundamental group of $P$ which contain a periodic billiard orbit agrees with the analogous set for $Q$. We study this equivalence relationship and compare it to the equivalence relations, order equivalence and code equivalence, introduced in \cite{BT1,BT2}. In particular we show if $P$ is a rational polygon, and $Q$ is homotopically equivalent to $P$, then $P$ and $Q$ are similar, or affinely similar if all sides of $P$ are vertical and horizontal.

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arXiv2011

The topological entropy of Banach spaces

We investigate some properties of (universal) Banach spaces of real functions in the context of topological entropy. Among other things, we show that any subspace of $C([0,1])$ which is isometrically isomorphic to $\ell_1$ contains a functions with infinite topological entropy. Also, for any $t \in [0, \infty]$, we construct a (one-dimensional) Banach space in which any nonzero function has topological entropy equal to $t$.

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arXiv2011

Code & order in polygonal billiards

Two polygons $P,Q$ are code equivalent if there are billiard orbits $u,v$ which hit the same sequence of sides and such that the projections of the orbits are dense in the boundaries $\partial P, \partial Q$. Our main results show when code equivalent polygons have the same angles, resp. are similar, resp. affinely similar.

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arXiv2009

Does a billiard orbit determine its (polygonal) table?

We introduce a new equivalence relation on the set of all polygonal billiards. We say that two billiards (or polygons) are order equivalent if each of the billiards has an orbit whose footpoints are dense in the boundary and the two sequences of footpoints of these orbits have the same combinatorial order. We study this equivalence relation with additional regularity conditions on the orbit.

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arXiv2006

Topological entropy of m-fold maps on trees

We establish the analogue for maps on trees of the result established in two papers by the first author for interval maps, that a continuous self- map for which all but countably many points have at least m preimages (and none have less than two) has topological entropy bounded below by log m.

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