Periodic attractors versus nonuniform expansion in singular limits of families of rank one maps (Q2379726)

The authors study the one-parameter family of multimodal one-dimensional maps that arise by passing to the singular limits of parameterized families of rank one maps. The theory of rank one maps due to Wang and Young provides conditions for the existence of strange attractors with strong stochastic properties in parameterized families of dissipative diffeomorphisms. All three theorems in the paper concern amissible families. Such a family is a one-parameter \(C^2\) family \(\{f_a: a\in [a,a_2]\}\) of multimodeal maps of an interval or circle to itself that contains a strongly expanding Misiurewicz-type map \(F_{a^+}\), and satisfies a parameter transversality condition. Wang and Young proved that, in a neighborhood of \(a^*\), there is a set \(\Delta\) of positive Lebesgue measure such that for \(a\in\Delta\), \(f_a\) admits an absolutely continuous probability measure and satisfies two additional conditions of Collet-Eckmann type. The authors' main theorem says that if an admissible family satisfies a mild combinatorial condition, then every parameter \(a\in\Delta\) is an accumulation point of parameters corresponding to maps with superstable periodic sinks. The other two theorems establish that the combinatorial condition is satisfied by admissible families of either long-branched maps or unimodal maps.