Paper 4, Section II, E

Dynamical Systems
Part II, 2018

Let F:IIF: I \rightarrow I be a continuous one-dimensional map of an interval IRI \subset \mathbb{R}. Define what it means (i) for FF to have a horseshoe (ii) for FF to be chaotic. [Glendinning's definition should be used throughout this question.]

Prove that if FF has a 3 -cycle x1<x2<x3x_{1}<x_{2}<x_{3} then FF is chaotic. [You may assume the intermediate value theorem and any corollaries of it.]

State Sharkovsky's theorem.

Use the above results to deduce that if FF has an NN-cycle, where NN is any integer that is not a power of 2 , then FF is chaotic.

Explain briefly why if FF is chaotic then FF has NN-cycles for many values of NN that are not powers of 2. [You may assume that a map with a horseshoe acts on some set Λ\Lambda like the Bernoulli shift map acts on [0,1)[0,1).]

The logistic map is not chaotic when μ<μ3.57\mu<\mu_{\infty} \approx 3.57 and it has 3 -cycles when μ>1+83.84\mu>1+\sqrt{8} \approx 3.84. What can be deduced from these statements about the values of μ\mu for which the logistic map has a 10-cycle?