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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!babbage!ensl!absinthe!koiran
- From: koiran@ens-lyon.fr (Pascal Koiran)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: dynamical systems and (perhaps) algebraic geometry
- Message-ID: <Bu9Au5.H4J@ens-lyon.fr>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 11:06:04 GMT
- Sender: news@ens-lyon.fr
- Reply-To: koiran@ens-lyon.fr
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
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- Hello,
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- Can someone provide a solution to the following problem, or give references
- to related work in the litterature ?
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- Let f:[0,1]^n-->[0,1]^n (n>1) be a function of the form
- f(x)=(P_1(x),P_2(x),...,P_n(x)) where the P_i's are polynomials.
- Let's consider the iterates of f. Is the following situation possible ?
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- for all k, there exists an infinite number of k-cycles (by k-cycle, I mean
- a cycle of length exactly k).
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- Generalize to rational functions instead of polynomials, and to analytic
- functions.
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- Thanks,
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- Pascal.
-