On Limits Sets in Dynamical Systems
On Limits Sets in Dynamical Systems
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DOI:
10.1112/plms/s3-4.1.168
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发表时间:
1954
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Y. N. Dowker;F. G. Friedlander
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作者:
Y. N. Dowker;F. G. Friedlander
A'DISCRETE dynamical system'consists of a compact space X and the discrete group of mappings of X onto itself generated by the iteration of a given one-to-one continuous mapping ToiX onto itself. A'continuous dynamical system'(a flow) consists of a compact space X and an additive one-parameter group of mappings Tt (t a real number) of X onto itself. In the study of such systems the notion of the co-limit set of a point is of some importance. Roughly speaking, this is the limit set of the positive half-trajectory from the point; it is closed, and invariant under T. GD Birkhoff (2), to whom this notion is due, showed inter alia that, in the continuous case, an co-limit set is always connected. One would expect an w-limit set to have further intrinsic properties, because of the special way in which it is generated, and it is also natural to look for an intrinsic property which characterizes an co-limit set. In this note such a property is defined.A space X is here called T-connected (with respect to a given one-to-one continuous mapping T of X onto itself) if it contains no proper closed subset which is mapped into its own interior. This property, similar but not equivalent to regional recurrence, is shown to be possessed by every co-limit set, and in turn to imply that X is the co-limit set of some point of a second dynamical system which'includes'{X, T)(Theorems I and II). If T is the identity, T-connectedness reduces to connectedness in the usual sense. In general, T-connectedness is to some extent analogous to connectedness; this is illustrated by Theorem III below, which extends Sierpinski's well-known [cf.(5)] decomposition theorem from continua to T-connected sets.