Parameterized family of annular homeomorphisms with pseudo-circle attractors

Abstract

In this paper we construct a paramaterized family of annular homeomorphisms with Birkhoff-like rotational attractors that vary continuously with the parameter, are all homeomorphic to the pseudo-circle, display interesting boundary dynamics and furthermore preserve the induced Lebesgue measure from the circle. Namely, in the constructed family of attractors the outer prime ends rotation number vary continuously with the parameter through the interval $[0,1/2]$. This, in particular, answers a question from [J. London Math. Soc. (2) {\bf 102} (2020), 557--579]. To show main results of the paper we first prove a result of an independent interest, that Lebesgue-measure preserving circle maps generically satisfy the crookedness condition which implies that generically the inverse limits of Lebesgue measure-preserving circle maps are hereditarily indecomposable. For degree one circle maps, this implies that the generic inverse limit in this context is the R.H. Bing's pseudo-circle.