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CONTINUITY OF THE MAPS f → x ∈I ω(x,f ) AND f → {ω(x,f ) : x ∈ I } T. H. STEELE Received 29 September 2004; Revised 11 December 2005; Accepted 12 February 2006 We study the behavior of two maps in an effort to better understand the stability of ω- limit sets ω(x,f ) as we perturb either x or f , or both. The first map is the set-valued function Λ taking f in C(I ,I ) to its collection of ω-limit points Λ(f ) = x ∈I ω(x,f ), and the second is the map Ω taking f in C(I ,I ) to its collection of ω-limit sets Ω(f ) = {ω(x,f ) : x ∈ I }. We characterize those functions f in C(I ,I ) at which each of our maps Λ and Ω is continuous, and then go on to show that both Λ and Ω are continuous on a residual subset of C(I ,I ). We then investigate the relationship between the continuity of Λ and Ω at some function f in C(I ,I ) with the chaotic nature of that function. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction We begin with a brief historical overview in an effort to place this paper’s results in con- text. Let f be a continuous self-map of the unit interval I = [0,1], and take as our start- ing point the iterates of this map. In particular, we begin by considering the trajectories generated by our function f ∈ C(I ,I ) for particular initial conditions x in I , and let τ (x,f ) = {f k (x )}∞ = {x,f (x ),f (f (x )),... ,f n (x ),...} be the trajectory of x ∈ I gener- k =0 ated by f . Central to the study of dynamical and chaotic systems is the desire to under- stand how trajectories τ (x,f ) = {f k (x )}∞ are affected by slight changes in the initial k =0 condition x . In order to somewhat simplify this study, one oftentimes considers the ω- limit set generated by x rather than the trajectory. We take ω(x,f )—the ω-limit s