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- From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Mappings with singular points
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 00:31:04 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Nov8.234155.14813@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov8.234155.14813@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ddixon@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Dixon) writes:
- >Is anybody aware of any differences between mappings with and without
- >singular points? For example, say I have a map x[n+1] = f(x[n]), where
- >df/dx is singular at some point. Does this show any behavior not seen
- >in maps involving analytic functions?
-
- I've done some experimenting with maps x[n+1] = x^(-n)+C. The main
- difference I noted with this map is that the map doesn't diverge to
- infinity. (I.e. infinity gets mapped back C, as opposed to the mandelbrot
- set, where infinity is mapped to infinity.)
-
- I guess rational polynomial functions (i.e. P(x)/Q(x)) have singular points.
- Their behavior isn't very different from polynomial functions, although
- there are a few differences (I can't remember the details).
-
- A good reference for rational polynomial fractals is:
- %T Complex Analytic Dynamics on the Riemann Sphere
- %A P. Blanchard
- %J Bull. of the Amer. Math. Soc
- %V 11
- %N 1
- %D July 1984
- %P 85-141
-
- (I highly recommend that paper for anyone interested in the mathematical
- side of fractals.)
-
- Ken Shirriff shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
-