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# Periodic attractors of nonautonomous flat-topped tent systems

We would like to thank the referee for several valuable suggestions

The author was partially supported by FCT Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through the project UID/MAT/04674/2013, CIMA and ISEL.
• In this work we will consider a family of nonautonomous dynamical systems $x_{k+1} = f_k(x_k,\lambda)$, $\lambda \in [-1,1]^{\mathbb{N}_0}$, generated by a one-parameter family of flat-topped tent maps $g_{\alpha}(x)$, i.e., $f_k(x,\lambda) = g_{\lambda_k}(x)$ for all $k\in \mathbb{N}_0$. We will reinterpret the concept of attractive periodic orbit in this context, through the existence of some periodic, invariant and attractive nonautonomous sets and establish sufficient conditions over the parameter sequences for the existence of such periodic attractors.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37B55, 37E05, 37G35; Secondary: 37E15.

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• Figure 1.  Construction of the sets $A_i$ for $X=RL0$, $X^R=(RLL)^{\infty}$ and $X^L=RLR(RLL)^{\infty}$

Figure 2.  A bifurcation diagram with a sequence of nonautonomous $p$-periodic $\lambda$-attractors with period doubling periods $p = 3,6,\ldots$, for a sequence of sequences $\lambda$, such that $\lambda_{3n+1} = \lambda_{3n+2} = 1$, $\lambda_0$ varies from $-0.6$ to $-0.5$ and $\lambda_{3n} = \lambda_0 +0.01r_n$, where $r_n$ ia a random integer between $0$ and $9$

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