The topological complexity of Cantor attractors for unimodal interval maps

Simin Li, Weixiao Shen

Published 2012-07-12, updated 2013-12-03Version 3

For a non-flat $C^3$ unimodal map with a Cantor attractor, we show that for any open cover $\mathcal U$ of this attractor, the complexity function $p(\mathcal U, n)$ is of order $n\log n$. In the appendix, we construct a non-renormalizable map with a Cantor attractor for which $p(\mathcal{U}, n)$ is bounded from above for any open cover $\mathcal{U}$.