Ergodicity of transitive unimodal transformations of a segment (Q1812674): Difference between revisions

``We consider a piecewise-monotonic transformation \(f\) of the segment \(I=[0,1]\) with negative Schwarzian. The transformation \(f\) is called unimodal if it has a unique critical point \(c\) while this point is nondegenerate. The transformation \(f\) is called (topologically) transitive if it has a dense orbit \(\{f^ nx\}^ \infty_{n=0}\) (where \(f^ n\) is the \(n\)-th iteration of \(f)\) and ergodic if there does not exist a partition of \(I=X_ 1\cup X_ 2\) into two measurable invariant subsets of positive measure (invariance means that \(fX_ i\subset X_ i)\). Here the segment \(I\) is also called transitive (respectively, ergodic). The goal of the present paper is the proof of the following result. Theorem. A transitive unimodal transformation \(f:I\to I\) with negative Schwarzian is ergodic''.