Omega-limit sets for spiral maps

B. Kitchens and M. Misiurewicz


Abstract

We investigate a class of homeomorphisms of a cylinder, with all trajectories convergent to the cylinder base and one fixed point in the base. Let A be a nonempty finite or countable family of sets, each of which can be a priori an omega-limit set. Then there is a homeomorphism from our class, for which A is the family of all omega-limit sets.