Benedicks, Michael; Carleson, Lennart On iterations of \(1-\alpha x^2\) on \((-1,1)\). (English) Zbl 0597.58016 Ann. Math. (2) 122, 1-25 (1985). In the paper the mapping \(F(x;a)=1-ax^ 2\), \(-1<x<1\), where \(a\) is a parameter in the interval \((0,2)\) is considered. The paper has three parts. The first one is introductory. Existence of attractive cycles is studied in the second part and it is proved that there exists a set \(S\subset (0,2)\) of positive Lebesgue measure such that for \(a\in S\) the mapping \(x\to F(x;a)\) has no attractive cycles. In the third part the authors prove that for almost all \(a\in S\), \(x\to F(x;a)\) has an absolutely continuous invariant measure. Moreover, they prove that the density function of that measure belongs to \(L^ p\) for \(p<2\). The proof also shows that for \(2-a_ 0\) small enough the set of \(a\in (a_ 0,2)\) for which \(F(x;a)\) has an attractive cycle is open and dense in \(S\). Reviewer: J.Šiška Cited in 8 ReviewsCited in 134 Documents MSC: 37A10 Dynamical systems involving one-parameter continuous families of measure-preserving transformations 26A18 Iteration of real functions in one variable 28A75 Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory 37D45 Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior Keywords:invariant measure; iterations; attractive cycles × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI