Monotone five-cycle interval covering pattern
ID: monotone-five-cycle-interval-covering-pattern
A five-cycle whose points are in orbit order along the real line gives four interval vertices with arrows and . The transition-matrix traces for lengths one through four are . Primitive closed words force at least one fixed point, one two-cycle, two three-cycles and three four-cycles. The second iterate has a two-branch horseshoe for an interval map on vertices two and three. The map itself need not have a one-step horseshoe: the unimodal affine example for , for has precisely this five-cycle and has no two disjoint self-covering branches.
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