The Number of Periodic Orbits of a Rational Difference Equation

Eric Bedford; Kyounghee Kim

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The Number of Periodic Orbits of a Rational Difference Equation

Eric Bedford·Kyounghee Kim

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We show how a variant of the Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem may be used to count the number of periodic orbits for certain rational difference equations.

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Eric Bedford, Kyounghee Kim. 2007-09-27. The Number of Periodic Orbits of a Rational Difference Equation. https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4501

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