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Exercises in Iterational Asymptotics II

Number Theory 2025-03-07 v2 Discrete Mathematics Classical Analysis and ODEs Combinatorics

Abstract

The nonlinear recurrences we consider here include the functions 3x(1x)3x(1-x) and cos(x)\cos(x), which possess attractive fixed points 2/32/3 and 0.739...0.739... (Dottie's number). Detailed asymptotics for oscillatory convergence are found, starting with a 1960 paper by Wolfgang Thron. Another function, x/(1+xln(1+x))x/(1+x\ln(1+x)), gives rise to a sequence with monotonic convergence to 00 but requires substantial work to calculate its associated constant CC.

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@article{arxiv.2501.06065,
  title  = {Exercises in Iterational Asymptotics II},
  author = {Steven Finch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06065},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages

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