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Publications and source records attributed to Richard Urzúa.
In this article, we study the periodic points for continuous self-maps on the wedge sum of topological manifolds, exhibiting a particular combinatorial structure. We compute explicitly the Lefschetz numbers, the Dold coefficients and consider its set of algebraic periods. Moreover, we study the special case of maps on the wedge sum of tori, and show some of the homological obstructions present in defining these maps.
We study the dynamics of skew product endomorphisms acting on the cylinder $\cyl$, of the form $$ \tht \mapsto (\ell θ, \la θ+ τ(θ)), $$ where $ \ell \geq 2$ is an integer, $\la \in (0,1)$ and $τ: \T \to \R$ is a continuous function. We are interested on {\it topological} properties of the global attractor $\Omegalt$ of this map. Given $\ell$ and a Lipschitz function $τ$, we show that the attractor set $\Omegalt$ is homeomorphic to a closed topological annulus for all $\la$ sufficiently close to 1. Moreover, we prove that $\Omegalt$ is a Jordan curve for at most finitely many $\la \in (0,1)$. These results rely on a detailed study of iterated ``cohomological'' equations of the form $τ= \cL_{\la_1} μ_1$, $μ_1 = \cL_{\la_2} μ_2, >...$, where $\cL_\la μ= μ\circ \ml - \la μ$ and $\ml: \T \to \T$ denotes the multiplication by $\ell$ map. We show the following finiteness result: each Lipschitz function $τ$ can be written in a canonical way as, $$ τ= \cL_{\la_1} \circ ... \circ \cL_{\la_m} μ, $$ where $m \ge 0$, $λ_1, ..., λ_m \in (0, 1]$ and the Lipschitz function $μ$ satisfies $μ\neq \cL_\la ρ$ for every continuous function $ρ$ and every $\la \in (0,1]$.