Entropy and rotation intervals for circle maps near saddle-node bifurcations (Q1579093)

This paper is devoted to dynamical properties of a one-parameter family of \(C^r\) endomorphisms \(f_\lambda\) of the circle. To this end a formulation of the rotation interval and topological entropy are discussed. The author shows that (admitting that \(f_\lambda\) exhibits nontrivial behaviour) the topological entropy and the width of the rotation interval of \(f_\lambda\) satisfy certain scaling laws as \(\lambda\downarrow 0\) and gives estimates for each of these characteristics.