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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786510203321

Autore

Graczyk Jacek

Titolo

The real Fatou conjecture / / by Jacek Graczyk and Grzegorz Swiatek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1998

{copy}1998

ISBN

0-691-00257-6

1-4008-6518-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; Number 144

Disciplina

516.3/62

Soggetti

Geodesics (Mathematics)

Polynomials

Mappings (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Review of Concepts -- Chapter 2. Quasiconformal Gluing -- Chapter 3. Polynomial-Like Property -- Chapter 4. Linear Growth of Moduli -- Chapter 5. Quasi conformal Techniques -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/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.