## Real Analysis Exchange

### Orbits of Darboux-Like Real Functions

T. K. Subrahmonian Moothathu

#### Abstract

We show that, with respect to the dynamics of iteration, Darboux-like functions from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ can exhibit some strange properties which are impossible for continuous functions. To be precise, we show that (i) there is an extendable function from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ which is `universal for orbits' in the sense that it possesses every orbit of every function from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ up to an arbitrary small translation, and which has orbits asymptotic to any real sequence, (ii) there is a function $f\:mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ such that for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$, $f^n$ is almost continuous and the graph of $f^n$ is dense in $\mathbb{R}^2$, in spite of the fact that all $f$-orbits are finite. To prove (i) we assume the Continuum Hypothesis.

#### Article information

Source
Real Anal. Exchange, Volume 33, Number 1 (2007), 145-152.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 28 April 2008

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rae/1209398384

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2402869

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1132.54023

#### Citation

Moothathu, T. K. Subrahmonian. Orbits of Darboux-Like Real Functions. Real Anal. Exchange 33 (2007), no. 1, 145--152. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rae/1209398384