Fibonacci-like unimodal inverse limit spaces and the core Ingram conjecture (Q519276)

A unimodal map is called Fibonacci-like if it satisfies certain combinatorial conditions implying an extreme recurrence behavior of the critical point. In [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Phys. Théor. 53, No. 4, 413--425 (1990; Zbl 0721.58018)], \textit{F. Hofbauer} and \textit{G. Keller} described these functions as a candidate to have a so-called wild attractor. Later, in [\textit{H. Bruin}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No. 6, 2229--2263 (1998; Zbl 0901.58029), \textit{M. Lyubich} and \textit{J. Milnor}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 6, No. 2, 425--457 (1993; Zbl 0778.58040), \textit{H. Bruin} et al., Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 17, No. 6, 1267--1287 (1997; Zbl 0898.58012) and \textit{H. Bruin}, Nonlinearity 9, No. 5, 1191--1207 (1996; Zbl 0895.58018)] it was shown that Fibonacci-like combinatorics are incompatible with the Collet-Eckmann condition of exponential derivative growth along the critical orbit, which makes Fibonacci-like maps an interesting class of maps. In 1991, W. T. Ingram posed the following conjecture for tent maps \(T_s: [0,1]\to [0,1]\) with slope \(\pm s\), \(s\in [1,2]\) defined as \(T_s(x)=\text{min}\{sx,s(1-x)\}\), now known as the Ingram conjecture: if \(1\leq s<s' \leq 2\), then the corresponding inverse limit spaces \(\displaystyle \lim_{\longleftarrow} \left (\left [0, \frac{s}{2}\right ], T_s\right )\) and \(\displaystyle \lim_{\longleftarrow}\left (\left [0,\frac{s'}{2}\right ],T_{s'}\right )\) are non-homeomorphic. In [Geom. Topol. 16, No. 4, 2481--2516 (2012; Zbl 1285.54030)] the present authors with \textit{M. Barge} gave a positive answer to Ingram's Conjecture for all slopes \(s\in [1,2]\) but we still know very little of the structure of inverse limit spaces (and their subcontinua) for the case that orb\((c)\) is infinite and recurrent. The purpose of the paper under review is study the structure of the inverse limit space of so-called Fibonacci-like tent maps. The main result of this paper says: If \(1\leq s <s' \leq 2\) are the parameters of Fibonacci-like tent maps, then the corresponding cores of inverse limit spaces \(\displaystyle \lim_{\longleftarrow}\left (\left [c_2,c_1\right ], T_s\right )\) and \(\displaystyle \lim_{\longleftarrow}\left (\left [c_2,c_1\right ],T_{s'}\right )\) are non-homeomorphic.