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- From: koiran@ens.ens-lyon.fr (Pascal Koiran)
- Subject: decidability and dynamical systems
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:10:30 GMT
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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]-->[0,1] be a continuous piecewise-linear function (with a finite
- number of laps). The endpoints of the laps have rational coordinates.
- Given such an f and a rational x \in [0,1], is it decidable whether a fixed
- point is reached in finite time when f is iterated on x ?
- In other words, is it decidable whether there exists t, f^t(x)=f^{t+1}(x) ?
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- One can ask the same question for other classes of non-linear functions,
- such as polynomials, rational functions, ...
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- Thanks,
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- Pascal.
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