On distributional spectrum of piecewise monotonic maps

Abstract

We study a certain class of piecewise monotonic maps of interval. These maps are strictly monotone on finite interval partition, satisfies Markov condition and have generator property. We show that for a function from this class distributional chaos is always present and we study its basic properties. Main result states that distributional spectrum as well as weak spectrum is always finite. This is a generalization of same result for continuous maps on the interval, circle and tree. Examples showing that conditions on mentions class can not be weakened are presented.