The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics Advance Access published online on February 15, 2008
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, doi:10.1093/qmath/ham046
CLASSIFICATION OF A CLASS OF CONTINUOUS MAPS ON THE UNIT INTERVAL

Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
Corresponding author. E-mail: pmtjkt{at}leeds.ac.uk
Received 20 December 2005;
revised 9 August 2007
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We give a classification of certain continuous maps from the unit interval (or any non-trivial closed bounded interval of the real line) to itself up to conjugacy. The maps studied are those for which there is a partition of the interval into finitely many subintervals whose endpoints form a cycle of the map, and on each of which the map is monotonic.