Internal Maps With Dense Periodicity

We consider the class of interval maps with dense set of periodic points CP and its closure CP equipped with the metric of uniform convergence. Besides studying basic topological properties and density results in the spaces CP and CP we prove that CP is dynamically characterized as the set of interval maps for which every point is chain-recurrent. Furthermore, we prove that a strong topological expansion property called topological exactness (or leo property) is attained on the open dense set of maps in CP and on a residual set in CP. Moreover, we show that every second category set in CP and CP is rich in a sense that it contains uncountably many conjugacy classes. An analogous conclusion also holds in the setting of interval maps preserving any fixed non-atomic probability measure with full support. Finally, we give a detailed description of the structure of periodic points of generic maps in CP and CP and show that generic maps in CP and CP satisfy the shadowing property.