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We study the growth of typical groups from the family of $p$-groups of intermediate growth constructed by the second author. We find that, in the sense of category, a generic group exhibits oscillating growth with no universal upper bound.…

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The dynamics of all quadratic Newton maps of rational functions are completely described. The Julia set of such a map is found to be either a Jordan curve or totally disconnected. It is proved that no Newton map with degree at least three…

We investigate the spectrum of 2-dimensional canonical systems in the limit circle case. It is discrete and, by the Krein-de Branges formula, cannot be more dense than the integers. But in many cases it will be more sparse. The spectrum of…

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