Simplicial dynamical systems

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By a simplicial dynamical system on a compact polyhedron \(X\) the author means a simplicial map \(g:K^*\to K\) where \(K\) is a finite simplicial complex triangulating \(X\) and \(K^*\) is a proper subdivision of \(K\), e.g. the barycentric or any further subdivision. Then the associated piecewise linear map (denoted by the same symbol \(g)\) determines a dynamical system on \(X\). Any continuous map \(f\) on \(X\) can be \(C^0\) approximated by such a piecewise linear map \(g\) called a p.l. roundoff map for \(f\). This monograph analyzes the behaviour of simplicial dynamical systems. Because \(K^*\neq K\) one cannot directly iterate the simplicial map \(g:K^*\to K\). Therefore author considers naturally defined finite relations \(G^*\) and \(G\) on \(K^*\) and \(K\), respectively. The recurrence properties of the p.l. map \(g\) on \(X\) can be computed by using the relations \(G^*\) and \(G\). One can sometimes show that the \(g\)-orbits approximate true \(f\)-orbits. The monograph consists of eleven chapters, the last two being labelled as appendices. Chapter 1 reviews from [\textit{E. Akin}, The general topology of dynamical systems, Grad. Stud. Math. 1 (1993; Zbl 0781.54025)] some results for dynamics of a closed relation on a compact metric space. A special attention is paid to chain recurrent sets and basic sets. Chapter 2 deals with simplicial maps and their local inverses. In Chapter 3 shift factor maps are defined which are used to study a simplicial dynamical system. A partial shadowing lemma is obtained. Chapter 4 deals with recurrence and introduces so-called basic set images. The union of the basic set images for \(g\) is the closure of the set of recurrent points. From the basic set images one can construct the basic sets for \(g\). In Chapter 5 the invariant measures for the p.l. map \(g\) are studied. They come from the shifts (of particular importance are those which come from Markov measures on the shift). In Chapter 6 generalized simplicial dynamical systems are introduced. Chapter 7 brings examples -- the higher dimensional tent map and examples on a single 2-simplex together with its faces. Chapter 8 deals with p.l. roundoffs of a continuous map. Chapter 9 deals with the special case when the polyhedron \(X\) is a manifold. Finally, Chapter 10 (appendix) reviews the simplicial constructions associated with stellar subdivisions of a complex and introduces lunar subdivisions and Chapter 11 (appendix) reviews the concepts of shadowing and expansivity for homeomorphisms and extends them to closed relations on a compact metric space.











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