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Topological entropy of transitive dendrite maps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2013

VLADIMÍR ŠPITALSKÝ*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia email vladimir.spitalsky@umb.sk

Abstract

We show that every dendrite $X$ satisfying the condition that no subtree of $X$ contains all free arcs admits a transitive, even exactly Devaney chaotic map with arbitrarily small entropy. This gives a partial answer to a question of Baldwin from 2001.

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Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press, 2013 

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