Dense set of negative Schwarzian maps whose critical points have minimal limit sets (Q1576764)

The authors define a class of maps which is dense in the space of all \(C^2\) interval maps with negative Schwarzian and study \(C^2\)-structural stability of these maps. This class of maps consists of the \(C^2\) interval maps with finitely many critical points, all of them nondegenerate, none of them being an endpoint of the interval, and each critical point being either attracted to an attracting periodic orbit or persistently recurrent (see Section 4 for definition of persistent recurrence). For unimodal maps this implies that the \(\omega\)-limit set of the critical point is minimal (in the dynamical sense) and thus nowhere dense. Moreover, the authors prove that if a map has all critical points non-recurrent then it is unstable in \(C^r\) for all \(r\).