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    A FIRST COURSE IN

    CHAOTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

    THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

    Robert L. Devaney
    Boston University

    Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


    The Advanced Book Program
    Reading, Massachusetts Menlo Park, California New York
    Don Mills, Ontario Wokingham, England Amsterdam Bonn
    Sydney Singapore Tokyo Madrid San Juan
    Paris Seoul Milan Mexico City Taipei

    *
    CONTENTS ix

    Contents

    C h a p t e r 1. A M a t h e m a t i c a l a n d Historical Tour 1
    1.1 Images from Dynamical Systems 1
    1.2 A Brief History of Dynamics 5
    C h a p t e r 2. Examples of Dynamical Systems 9
    2.1 An E x a m p l e from Finance 9
    2.2 An E x a m p l e from Ecology 11
    2.3 Finding Roots and Solving Equations 12
    2.4 Differential Equations 15
    C h a p t e r 3. Orbits 17
    3.1 Iteration 17
    3.2 Orbits 18
    3.3 Types of Orbits 19
    3.4 O t h e r Orbits 22
    3.5 T h e Doubling Function 24
    3.6 Experiment: T h e C o m p u t e r May Lie 25
    C h a p t e r 4. Graphical Analysis 29
    4.1 Graphical Analysis 29
    4.2 Orbit Analysis 32
    4.3 T h e P h a s e P o r t r a i t 33
    C h a p t e r 5. Fixed a n d Periodic Points 36
    5.1 A Fixed Point T h e o r e m 36
    5.2 Attraction and Repulsion 37
    5.3 Calculus of Fixed Points 38
    5.4 W h y Is T h i s True? 42
    5.5 Periodic Points 46
    5.6 Experiment: Rates of Convergence 48

    •
    x DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

    C h a p t e r 6. Bifurcations 52
    6.1 Dynamics of the Q u a d r a t i c M a p 52
    6.2 T h e Saddle-Node Bifurcation 57
    6.3 T h e Period-Doubling Bifurcation 61
    6.4 Experiment: T h e Transition to Chaos 63
    C h a p t e r 7. T h e Q u a d r a t i c Family 69
    7.1 T h e Case c = - 2 69
    7.2 T h e Case c < - 2 71
    7.3 T h e C a n t o r Middle-Thirds Set 75
    C h a p t e r 8. Transition to Chaos 82
    8.1 T h e Orbit Diagram 82
    8.2 T h e Period-Doubling R o u t e to Chaos 89
    8.3 Experiment: Windows in the Orbit Diagram 92
    C h a p t e r 9. Symbolic Dynamics 97
    9.1 Itineraries 97
    9.2 T h e Sequence Space 98
    9.3 T h e Shift M a p 103
    9.4 Conjugacy 106
    C h a p t e r 10. Chaos 114
    10.1 T h r e e Properties of a Chaotic System 114
    10.2 Other Chaotic Systems 121
    10.3 Manifestations of Chaos 126
    10.4 Experiment: Feigenbaum's Constant 128
    Chapter 11. Sarkovskii's T h e o r e m 133
    11.1 Period 3 Implies Chaos 133
    11.2 Sarkovskii's T h e o r e m 137
    11.3 T h e Period 3 Window 142
    11.4 Subshifts of Finite T y p e 146
    C h a p t e r 12. T h e Role of the Critical Orbit 154
    12.1 T h e Schwarzian Derivative 154
    12.2 T h e Critical Point a n d Basins of Attraction 157
    C h a p t e r 13. Newton's Method 164
    13.1 Basic Properties 164
    13.2 Convergence a n d Nonconvergence 169
    C h a p t e r 14. Fractals 176
    14.1 T h e Chaos G a m e 176
    CONTENTS xi

    14.2 The Cantor Set Revisited 178


    14.3 The Sierpinski Triangle 180
    14.4 The Koch Snowflake 182
    14.5 Topological Dimension 185
    14.6 Fractal Dimension 186
    14.7 Iterated Function Systems 190
    14.8 Experiment: Iterated Function Systems 197
    Chapter 15. Complex Functions 203
    15.1 Complex Arithmetic 203
    15.2 Complex Square Roots 207
    15.3 Linear Complex Functions 209
    15.4 Calculus of Complex Functions 212
    Chapter 16. The Julia Set 221
    16.1 The Squaring Function 221
    16.2 The Chaotic Quadratic Function 226
    16.3 Cantor Sets Again 227
    16.4 Computing the Filled Julia Set 233
    16.5 Experiment: Filled Julia Sets and Critical Orbits 238
    16.6 The Julia Set as a Repellor 239
    Chapter 17. The Mandelbrot Set 246
    17.1 The Fundamental Dichotomy 246
    17.2 The Mandelbrot Set 249
    17.3 Experiment: Periods of Other Bulbs 253
    17.4 Experiment: Periods of the Decorations 257
    17.5 Experiment: Find the Julia Set 258
    17.6 Experiment: Spokes and Antennae 259
    17.7 Experiment: Similarity of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets 260
    Chapter 18. Further Projects and Experiments 263
    18.1 The Tricorn 263
    18.2 Cubics 264
    18.3 Exponential Functions 267
    18.4 Trigonometrie Functions 270
    18.5 Complex Newton's Method 273
    Appendix A. Mathematical Preliminaries 279
    Appendix B. Algorithms 287
    Appendix C. References 295
    Index 299

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