Uniqueness of the upper transition attractor for bounded affine families

Let FtF_t be a bounded one-parameter affine family with attractors AtA_t, and let t0t_0 be the threshold at which attractors cease to exist. A compact set AA^* is an upper transition attractor if it is the limit of a sequence AtkA_{t_k} with tkt0t_k\to t_0. The family FtF_t is uniform if the map tAtt\mapsto A_t is uniformly continuous on (0,t0)(0,t_0). Upper transition attractor conjecture. For a bounded one-parameter family FtF_t, the following three equivalent statements hold: there is a unique upper transition attractor; limtt0At\lim_{t\to t_0}A_t exists; and FtF_t is uniform. The question concerns whether attractors have a unique limiting behavior at the threshold t0t_0. It is verified in dimension one, while graphical evidence supports it in dimension two; the general case remains open.

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Andrew Vince, “Thresholds for One-Parameter Families of Affine Iterated Function Systems”, arXiv:1912.03220 (2019).

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