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Exercises 4: 1. For Each of The Following Functions, Find All Fixed Points and Classify Them As Attracting

This document contains exercises from a course on chaos and dynamical systems. The exercises involve: 1) Finding fixed points and classifying them as attracting, repelling, or neutral for various functions. 2) Using graphical analysis to show that a neutral fixed point is weakly repelling or attracting depending on the third derivative. 3) Proving a repelling fixed point theorem about orbits diverging from a repelling fixed point. 4) Showing that an eventually periodic point for a homeomorphism must be periodic. 5) Showing the set of eventually fixed points is dense in the unit circle under a doubling map.

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Exercises 4: 1. For Each of The Following Functions, Find All Fixed Points and Classify Them As Attracting

This document contains exercises from a course on chaos and dynamical systems. The exercises involve: 1) Finding fixed points and classifying them as attracting, repelling, or neutral for various functions. 2) Using graphical analysis to show that a neutral fixed point is weakly repelling or attracting depending on the third derivative. 3) Proving a repelling fixed point theorem about orbits diverging from a repelling fixed point. 4) Showing that an eventually periodic point for a homeomorphism must be periodic. 5) Showing the set of eventually fixed points is dense in the unit circle under a doubling map.

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MA303

Chaos and Dynamical Systems


Exercises 4
1. For each of the following functions, find all fixed points and classify them as attracting,
repelling, or neutral:
(a) f (x) = x2 x/2;
(b) f (x) = x(1 x);
(c) f (x) = (2 x)/10;
(d) f (x) = x4 4x2 + 2;
(e) f (x) = 2 sin x;
(f) f (x) = sin x;
(g) f (x) = x3 3x;
(h) f (x) = arctan x;
(i) t(x) = 1 |1 2x| (the so-called tent map);
(j) f (x) = 1/x2 .
2. Suppose f has a neutral fixed point at x0 with f (x0 ) = 1 and f (x0 ) = 0. Suppose also that
f (x0 ) > 0. Use graphical analysis and the inflexion of the graph of f at x0 to show that x0 is
weakly repelling. Show that x0 is weakly attracting if instead f (x0 ) < 0.
3. Let f : I I be a continuously differentiable function, where I is a real interval. Let s
be a fixed point of f such that | f (s)| > 1. Show that there exists an > 0 such that if x0
(s , s + ), x0 6= s, then for some positive integer k such that | f k (x0 ) s| . (This is the
Repelling Fixed Point Theorem.)
4. Let I be a real interval and let f : I I be a homeomorphism. Suppose x0 I is eventually
periodic for f . Show that x0 must in fact be periodic.
5. Let S1 denote the unit circle in the plane. We denote a point in S1 by its angle measured
in radians in the standard manner. Let f ( ) = 2 on the circle. Show that the set of eventually
fixed points is dense in S1 . [Hint: Consider iterating 0 = /2n and certain other suitable
points.]

c LSE 2011 / MA303


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