On the iteration of smooth maps

Iteration of smooth maps appears naturally in the study of continuous difference equations and boundary value problems. Moreover, it is a subject that may be studied by its own interest, generalizing the iteration theory for interval maps. Our study is motivated by the works of A. N. Sharkovsky et a...

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Main Author: Correia, Maria de Fátima (author)
Other Authors: Ramos, Carlos (author), Vinagre, Sandra (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/5649
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/5649
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Summary:Iteration of smooth maps appears naturally in the study of continuous difference equations and boundary value problems. Moreover, it is a subject that may be studied by its own interest, generalizing the iteration theory for interval maps. Our study is motivated by the works of A. N. Sharkovsky et al. [1,3], E. Yu. Romanenko et al. [2], S. Vinagre et al. [4] and R. Severino et al. [5]. We study families of discrete dynamical systems of the type (Ω,f), where Ω is some class of smooth functions, e.g., a sub-class of C^r(J,R), where J is an interval, and f is a smooth map f:R→R. The action is given by ϕ→foϕ. We analyze in particular the case when f is a family of quadratic maps. For this family we analyze the topological behaviour of the system and the parameter dependence on the spectral decomposition of the iterates.