%0 Journal Article %T On persistently positively expansive maps %A Arbieto %A Alexander %J Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias %D 2010 %I Academia Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias %R 10.1590/S0001-37652010000200002 %X in this paper, we prove that any c1-persistently positively expansive map is expanding. this improves a result due to sakai (sakai 2004). %K positively expansive maps %K expanding maps. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-37652010000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en