title: Parry–Daniels map
text: # Parry–Daniels map
  
  In mathematics, the Parry–Daniels map is a function studied in the context of dynamical systems. Typical questions concern the existence of an invariant or ergodic measure for the map.
  
  It is named after the English mathematician Bill Parry and the British statistician Henry Daniels, who independently studied the map in papers published in 1962.
  
  ## Definition
  
  Given an integer n ≥ 1, let Σ denote the n-dimensional simplex in $R^{n+1}$ given by
  
      $\Sigma :=\{x=(x_{0},x_{1},\dots ,x_{n})\in \mathbb {R} ^{n+1}|0\leq x_{i}\leq 1{\mbox{ for each }}i{\mbox{ and }}x_{0}+x_{1}+\dots +x_{n}=1\}.$
  
  Let π be a permutation such that
  
      $x_{\pi (0)}\leq x_{\pi (1)}\leq \dots \leq x_{\pi (n)}.$
  
  Then the Parry–Daniels map
  
      $T_{\pi }:\Sigma \to \Sigma$
  
  is defined by
  
      $T_{\pi }(x_{0},x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}):=\left({\frac {x_{\pi (0)}}{x_{\pi (n)}}},{\frac {x_{\pi (1)}-x_{\pi (0)}}{x_{\pi (n)}}},\dots ,{\frac {x_{\pi (n)}-x_{\pi (n-1)}}{x_{\pi (n)}}}\right).$
  