On co-\(\sigma\)-porosity of the parameters with dense critical orbits for skew tent maps and matching on generalised \(\beta\)-transformations (Q2139061)

The authors study the skew tent map family \(T_{\alpha,\beta}\) and the generalized \(\beta\)-transformations \(G_{\alpha,\beta}(x) = \beta x + \alpha \hspace{4pt} ({\textrm{mod }} 1)\). One of their main results is that the set of parameters \((\alpha,\beta)\) for which the critical point of \(T_{\alpha,\beta}\) has a non-dense orbit has Lebesgue measure zero. This is proven first by fixing \(\alpha \in (0, 1)\) and then showing the \(\sigma\)-porosity of the set of parameters \(\beta\) where the orbit of the critical point of \(T_{\alpha,\beta}\) is not dense. Then the authors show that for all \(\beta > 1\) and \(\alpha \in [0, 1]\) \(G_{\alpha,\beta}\) has a unique smallest invariant union of intervals \(V_{\alpha,\beta}\). Another main result is that for all \(\beta > 1\) and Lebesgue-a.e. \(\alpha \in [0, 1]\), the orbit of \(c = 0\) is dense in \(V_{\alpha,\beta}\) under \(G_{\alpha,\beta}\). A final result is that \(G_{\alpha,\beta}\) with \(\beta\) chosen as the tribonacci number has matching (\(G_{\alpha,\beta}^n (0) = G_{\alpha,\beta}^n (1)\) for some \(n \ge 1\)) for Lebesgue-a.e. \(\alpha \in [0, 1]\).