Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access published online on October 8, 2009
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, doi:10.1112/plms/pdp037
© 2009 London Mathematical Society
Affine interval exchange maps with a wandering interval
Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa
Italy
Institut de Physique Théorique
CEA/Saclay
91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette
France
pierre.moussa@cea.fr
Collège de France
3, Rue dUlm
75005
Paris
jean-c.yoccoz@college-de-france.fr
Received 20 June 2008. Revision received 12 March 2009.
For almost all interval exchange maps (i.e.m.) T0, with combinatorics of genus g
2, we construct affine i.e.m. T that are semi-conjugate to T0 and have a wandering interval.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification Primary: 37C15 (Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, invariants, moduli, classification); Secondary: 37E05 (maps of the interval), 11J70 (Continued fractions and generalizations)