ON FUNCTIONS ATTRACTING POSITIVE ENTROPY

Abstract

We examine dynamical systems which are ‘nonchaotic’ on a big (in the sense of Lebesgue measure) set in each neighbourhood of a fixed point $x_{0}$, that is, the entropy of this system is zero on a set for which $x_{0}$ is a density point. Considerations connected with this family of functions are linked with functions attracting positive entropy at $x_{0}$, that is, each mapping sufficiently close to the function has positive entropy on each neighbourhood of $x_{0}$.