Random interval homeomorphisms

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Abstract: We investigate homeomorphisms of a compact interval, applied randomly. We consider this system as a skew product with the two-sided Bernoulli shift in the base. If on the open interval there is a metric in which almost all maps are contractions, then (with mild additional assumptions) there exists a global pullback attractor, which is a graph of a function from the base to the fiber. It is also a forward attractor. However, the value of this function depends only on the past, so when we take the one-sided shift in the base, it disappears. We illustrate those phenomena on an example, where there are two piecewise linear homeomorphisms, one moving points to the right and the other one to the left.


Let \(\Omega\) be a space with probability measure \(\mu\). The authors consider skew products \(G:\Omega \times [0,1]\to \Omega \times [0,1]\) of the form \(G(\theta, x)=(R(\theta), g_\theta(x))\), where \(R:\Omega \to \Omega\) is an invertible map for which \(\mu\) is invariant and ergodic and the maps \(g_\theta:[0,1]\to[0,1]\) are orientation-preserving homeomorphisms. \(G\) is essentially contracting if for almost all \(\theta\) and any \(x,y\in (0,1)\) the distance \(|\pi_2(G^n(\theta,x))-\pi_2(G^n(\theta,y))|\) goes to \(0\) for \(n\to \infty\). For \(G\) essentially contracting with attracting levels 0 and 1, it is shown, under some additional assumptions, that ``the common boundary of the basins of attraction of the levels 0 and 1 as the time goes to \(-\infty\) is both a forward and a pullback attractor for the system. The assumptions are shown to be valid for a one-parameter family of random homeomorphisms of an interval where the base is a Bernoulli shift and the corresponding homeomorphisms are piecewise linear. The results can be used also for general random systems of interval homeomorphisms.











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