A Fractal Eigenvector
Dynamical Systems
2022-05-04 v1
Abstract
The recursively-constructed family of Mandelbrot matrices for , , have nonnegative entries (indeed just and , so each can be called a binary matrix) and have eigenvalues whose negatives give periodic orbits under the Mandelbrot iteration, namely with , and are thus contained in the Mandelbrot set. By the Perron--Frobenius theorem, the matrices have a dominant real positive eigenvalue, which we call . 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 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}
}
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20 pages; 15 figures