@article {IOPORT.03995687, author = {Bernhardt, Chris}, title = {The ordering on permutations induced by continuous maps of the real line.}, year = {1987}, journal = {Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems}, volume = {7}, issn = {0143-3857}, pages = {155-160}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press, Cambridge}, doi = {10.1017/S0143385700003898}, abstract = {Continuous maps from the real line to itself give, in a natural way, a partial ordering of permutations. This ordering restricted to cycles is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a cycle to have an immediate predecessor. When a cycle has an immediate predecessor it is unique; it is shown how to construct it. Every cycle has immediate successors; it is shown how to construct them.}, identifier = {03995687}, }