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This paper describes a predictive control method to search for unstable periodic orbits of the generalized tent map. The invariant set containing periodic orbits is a repelling set with a complicated Cantor-like structure. Therefore, a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Kimberly Ayers , Dmitry Dmitrishin , Ami Radunskaya , Alexander Stokolos , Constantine Stokolos

We study a form of cyclic pursuit on Riemannian manifolds with positive injectivity radius. We conjecture that on a compact manifold, the piecewise geodesic loop formed by connecting consecutive pursuit agents either collapses in finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Dmitri Gekhtman

We prove that if a continuous piecewise-smooth map on $\mathbb{R}^n$ is comprised of two linear functions, has a bounded orbit, and satisfies a certain non-degeneracy condition, then it has a fixed point. The result has important…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-17 David J. W. Simpson

We characterize when a compact, invariant, asymptotically stable attractor on a locally compact Hausdorff space is a strong deformation retract of its domain of attraction.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Wouter Jongeneel

Let $X$ be a contractible $2$-complex which is a union of two contractible subcomplexes $Y$ and $Z.$ Is the intersection $Y\cap Z$ contractible as well? In this note, we prove that the inclusion-induced map $\pi _{1}(Y\cap Z)\rightarrow \pi…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Feng Ji , Shengkui Ye

We consider piecewise $C^2$ non-flat maps of the interval and show that, for Lebesgue almost every point, its omega-limit set is either a periodic orbit, a cycle of intervals or the closure of the orbits of a subset of the critical points.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Paulo Brandão , Jacob Palis , Vilton Pinheiro

In this paper, we show the results of the strength of attractorruins for a globally coupled map. The globally coupled map (GCM) is a discrete dynamical system, and here we consider a model in which the logistic map is globally coupled. An…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Koji Wada , Takao Namiki

The construction of attractors of a dissipative difference equation is usually based on compactness assumptions. In this paper, we replace them with contractivity assumptions under which the pullback and forward attractors are identical. As…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Huy Huynh , Abdullah Kalkan

We construct two examples of invariant manifolds that despite being locally unstable at every point in the transverse direction are globally stable. Using numerical simulations we show that these invariant manifolds temporarily repel nearby…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-05 Phanindra Tallapragada , Senbagaraman Sudarsanam

The aim of the current paper is to introduce a new class of contractive mappings, which are contracting (a feature of) triangles. We prove that maps contracting triangles are continuous and give the fixed point result for such mappings. We…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Ovidiu Popescu , Cristina Maria Pacurar

We prove the existence of a compact, finite dimensional, global attractor for a coupled PDE system comprising a nonlinearly damped semilinear wave equation and a nonlinear system of thermoelastic plate equations, without any mechanical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-30 Francesca Bucci , Igor Chueshov

We prove that every nearly spherical, positively curved surface is the contractive, volume-preserving image of a round sphere. The proof combines three main tools: the Ricci flow on surfaces, the Kim-Milman construction, and a multiscale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jordan Serres

We study contraction conditions for an iterated function system of continuous maps on a metric space which are chosen randomly, identically and independently. We investigate metric changes, preserving the topological structure of the space,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Katrin Gelfert , Graccyela R. Salcedo

We say that $f:[0,1]\to [0,1]$ is a {\it piecewise continuous interval map} if there exists a partition $0=x_0<x_1<\cdots<x_{d}<x_{d+1}=1$ of $[0,1]$ such that $f\vert_{(x_{i-1},x_i)}$ is continuous and the lateral limits $w_0^+=\lim_{x\to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Benito Pires

We study the statistical properties of piecewise expanding maps in the general setting of metric measure spaces. We provide sufficient conditions for exponential mixing of such systems with explicit estimates on the constants. We also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Peyman Eslami

In this paper, we will show that a periodic nonlinear, time-varying dissipative system that is defined on a genus-p surface contains one or more invariant sets which act as attractors. Moreover, we shall generalize a result in [Martins,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Yi Song , Stephen P. Banks

Let V, W be real algebraic varieties (that is, up to isomorphism, real algebraic sets), and let X be a subset of V. A map f from X into W is said to be regular if it can be extended to a regular map defined on some Zariski locally closed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Wojciech Kucharz

We present a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of a contractible Hamiltonian Cycle in the edge graph of equivelar maps on surfaces. We also present an algorithm to construct such cycles. This is further generalized and shown…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Dipendu Maity , Ashish Kumar Upadhyay

A well-known result of Bill Parry shows that a topologically transitive continuous piecewise monotone mapping with positive topological entropy is conjugate to a uniformly piecewise linear mapping with slope determined by the entropy. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-08-05 Chris Preston

We consider a family of piecewise contractions admitting a rotation number and defined for every $x\in[0,1)$ by $f(x)=\lambda x + \delta + d \theta_a(x) \pmod 1$, where $\lambda\in(0,1)$, $d\in(0,1-\lambda)$, $\delta\in[0,1]$, $a\in[0,1]$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-09 P. Guiraud , M. Hernández , A. Meyroneinc , A. Nogueira