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Periodic orbits of continuous mappings of the circle without fixed points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Chris Bernhardt
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA
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Let f be a continuous map of the circle to itself. Let P(f) denote the set of periods of the periodic points. In this paper the set P(f) is studied for functions without fixed points, so 1∉P(f). In particular, it is shown that if s, t are the two smallest integers in P(f) and s and t are relatively prime then αstP(f) for any positive integers α and β.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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