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Birkhoff recurrence theorem

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Every continuous self-map of a nonempty compact metric space has a recurrent point. Choose a minimal subsystem. The forward orbit of every point in it is dense, and the same is true of every tail of that orbit; consequently each neighborhood is revisited at arbitrarily large times. A nonempty subsystem is all that is guaranteed: the identity map on a singleton has no larger subsystem.

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