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A Fractal Eigenvector

Dynamical Systems 2022-05-04 v1

Abstract

The recursively-constructed family of Mandelbrot matrices MnM_n for n=1n=1, 22, \ldots have nonnegative entries (indeed just 00 and 11, so each MnM_n can be called a binary matrix) and have eigenvalues whose negatives λ=c-\lambda = c give periodic orbits under the Mandelbrot iteration, namely zk=zk12+cz_k = z_{k-1}^2+c with z0=0z_0=0, and are thus contained in the Mandelbrot set. By the Perron--Frobenius theorem, the matrices MnM_n have a dominant real positive eigenvalue, which we call ρn\rho_n. This article examines the eigenvector belonging to that dominant eigenvalue and its fractal-like structure, and similarly examines (with less success) the dominant singular vectors of MnM_n from the singular value decomposition.

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@article{arxiv.2104.01116,
  title  = {A Fractal Eigenvector},
  author = {Neil J. Calkin and Eunice Y. S. Chan and Robert M. Corless and David J. Jeffrey and Piers W. Lawrence},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01116},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

20 pages; 15 figures

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