Unimodal maps as boundary restrictions of two-dimensional full-folding maps (Q409606)

A selfmap of the unit interval is called unimodal if it is strictly increasing on \([0,c]\) and strictly decreasing on \([c,1]\) for some \(0<c<1\). The author introduces the concept of a full-folding map on a compact metric space. A continuous selfmap \(f\) on a compact metric space \(X\) is called full-folding if, for an open subset \(X_0\) of \(X\) which is the interior of its closure and \(X_1=X\setminus\overline{X_0}\), the restrictions \(f|_{\overline{X_i}}:\overline{X_i} \to X\) are homeomorphisms for \(i=0,1\), where \(\overline{X_i}\) denotes the closure of \(X_i\) in \(X\). A full-folding map can be seen as a generalization of the full tent map in that it has two homeomorphic inverse maps. In this very interesting article the author shows that for every unimodal map there is a full-folding map on the unit disc with simple dynamical properties so that the given unimodal map is the restriction of the full-folding map to a part of the boundary of the unit disc.