Iterative roots of piecewise monotonic functions with finite nonmonotonicity height

Abstract

It is known that any continuous piecewise monotonic function with nonmonotonicity height not less than 2 has no continuous iterative roots of order n greater than the number of forts of the function. In this paper, we consider the problem of iterative roots in the case that the order n is less than or equal to the number of forts. By investigating the trajectory of possible continuous roots, we give a general method to find all iterative roots of those functions with finite nonmonotonicity height.