p. 15 - 30 A two parameter family of piecewise linear transformations with negative slope F. Hofbauer Received: February 1, 2011; Accepted: July 12, 2011 Abstract. We study a two parameter family of piecewise linear transformations on the interval [0, 1] which have negative slope. We show that the nonwandering set consists of finitely many periodic orbits and an invariant set L which is topologically transitive and the disjoint union of finitely many closed intervals. We determine the number of these intervals. Keywords: Piecewise linear map; nonwandering set. AMS Subject classification: Primary: 37E05; Secondary: 37B10 PDF Compressed Postscript Version to read ISSN 0862-9544 (Printed edition) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics Comenius University 842 48 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Telephone: + 421-2-60295111 Fax: + 421-2-65425882 e-Mail: amuc@fmph.uniba.sk Internet: www.iam.fmph.uniba.sk/amuc © 2012, ACTA MATHEMATICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE |