Periodic structures for nonlinear piecewise contracting maps

Abstract: In this paper, we first show that any nonlinear monotonic increasing contracting maps with one discontinuous point on a unit interval which has an unique periodic point with period $n$ conjugates to a piecewise linear contracting map which has periodic point with same period. Second, we consider one parameter family of monotonic increasing contracting maps, and show that the family has the periodic structure called Arnold tongue for the parameter which is associated with the Farey series. This implies that there exist a parameter set with a positive Lebesgue measure such that the map has a periodic point with an arbitrary period. Moreover, the parameter set with period $(m+n)$ exists between the parameter set with period $m$ and $n$.