A HORSESHOE WITH POSITIVE MEASURE

Authors

  • Anderson Luiz Maciel UFSM
  • Alessandra Kreutz UFSM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X12131

Keywords:

Dynamical systems, Smale’s horseshoe, Cantor set.

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2179460X12131

The present paper aims to establish the bases for the construction of the Smale’s Horseshoe with positive measure, originallypresented by Rufus Bowen in an article from 1975. To attain this, we start with the construction of Stephen Smale’s classicalhorseshoe, presented by Smale in 1967. Considering figure D in the shape of a stadium on the plane, which contains one square,Q, we will make one contraction and one expansion of D to obtain a figure which looks like a horseshoe. The operations ofcontracting and expanding define one function, that is, f : D ! D. We define Smale’s horseshoe as set l of points q 2 Q Dwhich belong to Q after future and past interactions of function f . This set L is a Cantor set. Bowen’s horseshoe, i.e., Smale’shorseshoe of positive measure, is a set which duplicates Smale’s horseshoe.

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Author Biographies

Anderson Luiz Maciel, UFSM

Doutor em Matemática Aplicada pela USP

Área de concentração: sistemas dinâmicos

Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Matemática

 

Alessandra Kreutz, UFSM

Acadêmica do curso de licenciatura em matemática da UFSM.

Published

2014-02-15

How to Cite

Maciel, A. L., & Kreutz, A. (2014). A HORSESHOE WITH POSITIVE MEASURE. Ciência E Natura, 36(1), 018–029. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X12131

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Mathematics

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