Asymmetric unimodal maps with non-universal period-doubling scaling laws

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Abstract: We consider a family of strongly-asymmetric unimodal maps fttin[0,1] of the form ft=tcdotf where fcolon[0,1]o[0,1] is unimodal, f(0)=f(1)=0, f(c)=1 is of the form and f(x)=left{ �egin{array}{ll} 1-K_-|x-c|+o(|x-c|)& mbox{ for }x<c, \ 1-K_+|x-c|^�eta + o(|x-c|^�eta) &mbox{ for }x>c, end{array} ight. where we assume that . We show that such a family contains a Feigenbaum-Coullet-Tresser 2infty map, and develop a renormalization theory for these maps. The scalings of the renormalization intervals of the 2infty map turn out to be super-exponential and non-universal (i.e. to depend on the map) and the scaling-law is different for odd and even steps of the renormalization. The conjugacy between the attracting Cantor sets of two such maps is smooth if and only if some invariant is satisfied. We also show that the Feigenbaum-Coullet-Tresser map does not have wandering intervals, but surprisingly we were only able to prove this using our rather detailed scaling results.


This paper deals with a family of unimodal interval maps whose critical point possesses different orders on its two sides: linear and superlinear. Such a family is proved to contain a Feigenbaum-Coullet-Tresser map, occurring at the accumulation point of a logistic-like period-doubling cascade undergone by a specific one-parameter prototypical subfamily. For such a map the authors develop a novel renormalization theory, whereby the sequence of the renormalized maps converges to a degenerate map which admits an explicit description and depends only on the superlinear critical order. By introducing the notion of a semi-extension -- playing the role of the classical diffeomorphic extension -- they are able to obtain some control on the distortion of the map's iterates, and therefrom two significant geometrical properties: the scaling laws -- different for odd and even renormalization steps -- and the decay rate of the lengths of the renormalization intervals: superexponential. The authors also show that the attracting Cantor set of such a map has zero Hausdorff dimension, and establish a necessary and sufficient condition for two such sets being conjugate, i.e., universality. Finally, such a map is proved to possess no wandering intervals.



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