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Almost all interval exchange transformations with flips are nonergodic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Arnaldo Nogueira
Affiliation:
Institute de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68530, 21944 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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Abstract

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Here we prove that almost all interval exchange transformations which reverse orientation, in at least one interval, have a periodic point where the derivative is − 1. Therefore they are periodic in an open neighborhood of the periodic point.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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