On the size of the sets of chain recurrent points and periodic points of functions (Q2371902)

In this short summary of the talk presented in the Summer Symposium of Real Analysis Exchange, 2006, the author presents some results on the size of sets of chain recurrent points and periodic points. As a backdrop, he considers the spaces \(C(I,I)\) of all continuous functions and \(C^1(I,I)\) of all continuous functions having continuous derivatives endowed with the sup norm. He studies the size of the sets of fixed points, chain recurrent points and periodic points of continuous functions and presents some results. For example he declares that typically continuous functions on unit interval have nowhere dense set of chain recurrent points. In another direction, there exists a residual subset \(M\) of \(C(I,I)\) such that for every \(f \in M\), the set of periodic points of \(f\) is a set of first category, \(\sigma\)-perfect set and has Lebesgue measure zero.