Periodicity and Indecomposability in Generalized Inverse Limits

Abstract

In this paper, we consider inverse limits of [0,1] using upper semicontinuous set-valued bonding functions with the intermediate value property. Expanding on classical results by Barge and Martin, we explore the relationship between periodicity in the bonding function and the topology of the corresponding inverse limit. In particular, for an inverse limit of a single upper semicontinuous bonding map with the intermediate value property, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a periodic cycle with period not a power of two in the bonding function to imply the existence of an indecomposable subcontinuum of the inverse limit. We also give a partial converse. Along the way to these results, we show that subcontinua of these inverse limits have the full-projection property.