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Periods of maps on trees with all branching points fixed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Stewart Baldwin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849–5310, USA
Jaume Libre
Affiliation:
Departament de Matematiques, Universitat Autbnòma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

We characterize all possible sets of periods for all continuous self—mapson a tree having all branching points fixed. This result solves a problem which was originally posed by Alsedà, Llibre and Misiurewicz.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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