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The Number of Periodic Orbits of a Rational Difference Equation

Dynamical Systems 2007-10-01 v1

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.0709.4501,
  title  = {The Number of Periodic Orbits of a Rational Difference Equation},
  author = {Eric Bedford and Kyounghee Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4501},
  year   = {2007}
}