Piecewise contractions defined by iterated function systems

Abstract: Let

p h i_{1}, l d o t s, p h i_{n} : [0, 1] o (0, 1)

be Lipschitz contractions. Let

I = [0, 1)

,

x_{0} = 0

and

x_{n} = 1

. We prove that for Lebesgue almost every

(x_{1}, ..., x_{n - 1})

satisfying

0 < x_{1} < c d o t s < x_{n - 1} < 1

, the piecewise contraction

f : I o I

defined by

x i n [x_{i - 1}, x_{i}) m a p s t o p h i_{i} (x)

is asymptotically periodic. More precisely,

f

has at least one and at most

n

periodic orbits and the

o m e g a

-limit set

o m e g a_{f} (x)

is a periodic orbit of

f

for every

x i n I

.

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