Paper 4, Section II, E
Let be a continuous one-dimensional map of an interval . Define what it means (i) for to have a horseshoe (ii) for to be chaotic. [Glendinning's definition should be used throughout this question.]
Prove that if has a 3 -cycle then 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 has an -cycle, where is any integer that is not a power of 2 , then is chaotic.
Explain briefly why if is chaotic then has -cycles for many values of that are not powers of 2. [You may assume that a map with a horseshoe acts on some set like the Bernoulli shift map acts on .]
The logistic map is not chaotic when and it has 3 -cycles when . What can be deduced from these statements about the values of for which the logistic map has a 10-cycle?