Design of One-Dimensional Chaotic Maps With Prescribed Statistical Properties

The statistical properties of a wide class of 1D piecewise linear Markov maps are compiled. The method used enables one to address analytically the inverse problem of designing a map with a prescribed correlation function. This class of piecewise linear maps is then used as a system of reference to analyze non-Markov piecewise linear maps and to design maps with given invariant measure and correlation function.