On "observable" Li-Yorke tuples for interval maps

Henk Bruin, Piotr Oprocha

Published 2014-06-23Version 1

In this paper we study the set of Li-Yorke $d$-tuples and its $d$-dimensional Lebesgue measure for interval maps $T\colon [0,1] \to [0,1]$. If a topologically mixing $T$ preserves an absolutely continuous probability measure 9with respect to Lebesgue), then the $d$-tuples have Lebesgue full measure, but if $T$ preserves an infinite absolutely continuous measure, the situation becomes more interesting. Taking the family of Manneville-Pomeau maps as example, we show that for any $d \ge 2$, it is possible that the set of Li-Yorke $d$-tuples has full Lebesgue measure, but the set of Li-Yorke $d+1$-tuples has zero Lebesgue measure.