The Real Fatou Conjecture

Jacek Graczyk

ISBN 10: 0691002584 / ISBN 13: 9780691002583

Editore: Princeton University Press, 1998

1998. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780691002583

Riassunto:

In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that-except for special cases-all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration. This conjecture remains the main open problem in the dynamics of iterated maps. For the logistic family x- ax(1-x), it can be interpreted to mean that for a dense set of parameters "a" an attracting periodic orbit exists. The same question appears naturally in science, where the logistic family is used to construct models in physics, ecology, and economics. In this book, Jacek Graczyk and Grzegorz Swiatek provide a rigorous proof of the Real Fatou Conjecture. In spite of the apparently elementary nature of the problem, its solution requires advanced tools of complex analysis. The authors have written a self-contained and complete version of the argument, accessible to someone with no knowledge of complex dynamics and only basic familiarity with interval maps. The book will thus be useful to specialists in real dynamics as well as to graduate students.

Informazioni sull?autore: Jacek Graczyk is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University. Grzegorz Swiatek is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

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Titolo: The Real Fatou Conjecture
Casa editrice: Princeton University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New