M. Malkin

This special issue is dedicated to the anniversaries of two famous Russian mathematicians, Sergey V.Gonchenko and Vladimir N.Belykh. Over the years, they have made a lasting impact in the theory of dynamical systems and applications. In this issue we have collected a series of papers by their friends and colleagues devoted to modern aspects and trends of the theory of dynamical chaos.

We consider piecewise monotone (not necessarily, strictly) piecewise $C^2$ maps on the interval with positive topological entropy. For such a map $f$ we prove that its topological entropy $h_{top}(f)$ can be approximated (with any required accuracy) by restriction on a compact strictly $f$-invariant hyperbolic set disjoint from some neighborhood of prescribed set consisting of periodic attractors, nonhyperbolic intervals and endpoints of monotonicity intervals. By using this result we are able to generalize main theorem from [1] on chaotic behavior of multidimensional perturbations of solutions for difference equations which depend on two variables at nonperturbed value of parameter.

In this paper, we study the family of Arneodo–Coullet–Tresser maps $F(x,y,z)=(ax-b(y-z)$, $bx+a(y-z)$, $cx-dxk+e z)$ where $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$, $e$ are real parameters with $bd \ne 0$ and $k>1$ is an integer. We find regions of parameters near anti-integrable limits and near singularities for which there exist hyperbolic invariant sets such that the restriction of $F$ to these sets is conjugate to the full shift on two or three symbols.