The triangular maps with closed sets of periodic points (Q2488811)

A continuous selfmap of the square is called triangular if it is of the form \(F(x,y)=(f(x), g_x(y))\). A list of 19 conditions is considered, one of them being that the set of periodic points is closed. These conditions are known to be equivalent for continuous maps of the interval. In the paper under review, they are studied in the class of triangular maps. With a few exceptions, all possible implications among them are proved or disproved (using also results previously known about this problem). In the class of triangular maps with nondecreasing fibre maps \(g_x(y)\), a complete classification is given. Further, regularly recurrent points in minimal sets of triangular maps are studied (a point is regularly recurrent if the set of return times of this point to any neighbourhood of it contains the set \(\{m_i; \;i=0,1,\dots \}\) for some \(m\)). One of the results shows that a minimal set of a triangular map \(F\) may contain no regularly recurrent point though its first projection is contained in the set of regularly recurrent points of \(f\).