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- From: asimov@nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov)
- Subject: Exponential of an arbitrary mapping f: R^n -> R^n
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.181224.14463@nas.nasa.gov>
- Sender: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
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- Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:12:24 GMT
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- One way to generalize the exponential of a matrix to arbitrary
- continuous functions f: R^n -> R^n is as follows:
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- exp(f): R^n -> R^n via
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- exp(f)(x) = x + f(x) + f(f(x))/2! + f(f(f(x)))/3! +...
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- It is easy to see that this does not necessarily converge for all x.
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- Question: Has this version of exp(f) been defined and discussed
- previously in the literature? Can someone supply references and/or
- mention some of the elementary properties (if any) of this definition?
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- For example, where it exists is exp(f) continuous? If f is differentiable,
- or even smooth, then what about exp(f) ? Are there elementary conditions
- under which exp(f) is invertible? For which g can one find a
- corresponding "log," i.e., an f such that exp(f) = g ?
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- --Dan Asimov
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