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- From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Mappings with singular points
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.223452.8432@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:34:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Nov12.223452.8432
- 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? References would be greatly
- >appreciated.
-
- I'm not sure what you mean by "singular," but you may enjoy studying
- the dynamics of L(x) = log|x-1| on the real line. I haven't looked
- at it in the complex plane, though (heck, I'm not even sure it makes
- sense in the plane!).
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- Tom Scavo
- scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
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