
A NSWERS AND H INTS TO S ELECTED E XERCISES
2.1 (a) Source (b) Saddle (c) Sink.
2.2 (0, 0).
2.3 (0, 0) is a saddle and (3, 9) is a source.
2.4 (a) (⫺0. 7, ⫺0.7) is a fixed sink, (⫺0.8, ⫺0.8) is a fixed saddle; there are no
period-two orbits. (b) (⫺0.7, ⫺0.7) and (0.3, 0.3) are saddles and 兵(0.5, ⫺0.1),
(⫺0.1, 0.5)其 is a period-two sink orbit.
2.7 (a) ⫺0.1225 ⬍ a ⬍ 0.3675 (b) 0.3675 ⬍ a ⬍ 0.9125
2.8 (a) Image ellipse has one axis of length 2
2inthedirection(1, 1), and another
of length 1
2inthe(⫺1, 1) direction. Area is 2
. (b) Ellipse has axes of
length 3 and 2, and area of 6
.
T3.2 Hint: Find the Lyapunov exponents of all fixed points, and then show that all
orbits either are unbounded or converge to one of the fixed points.
T3.3 If f has a period-n orbit, then f
n
(x
0
) ⫽ x
0
⫹ nq ⫽ x
0
(mod 1), so that nq is an
integer. That is not possible since q is irrational. The Lyapunov exponent of the
orbit of any x
0
is lim
n→
⬁
1
n
[ln 1 ⫹ ...⫹ ln 1] ⫽ 0.
T3.4 The set of points which share the same length-k itinerary is a single subinterval
of length 2
⫺k
. An infinite itinerary corresponds to the nested intersection of
subintervals of length 2
⫺k
,kⱖ 1, which is a single point.
T3.7 First check that T
n
(x) ⫽ x if and only if G
n
C(x) ⫽ C(x), for any positive integer
n.Ifx is a period-k point for T,thenT
k
(x) ⫽ x implies G
k
C(x) ⫽ C(x). The
equality G
n
C(x) ⫽ C(x) cannot hold for any n ⬍ k because it would imply
T
n
(x) ⫽ x, which is not true—x is a period-k point. Therefore C(x)isaperiod-k
point for G.
T3.8 The first statement of Theorem 3.11 is Exercise T3.7. Secondly, apply the
chain rule to the equation g
k
(C(x)) ⫽ C(f
k
(x)) to get (g
k
)
(C(x))C
(x) ⫽
C
(f
k
(x))(f
k
)
(x). Since f
k
(x) ⫽ x and C
(x) ⫽ 0, cancelling yields (g
k
)
(C(x)) ⫽
(f
k
)
(x).
T3.10 (a) The itinerary LRR ⭈⭈⭈R, consisting of one L and k ⫺ 1R’s, is not periodic for
any period less than k. (b) According to Corollary 3.18, the interval LRR ⭈⭈⭈RL
contains a fixed point of f
k
. By part (a), that point must be part of a period-k
orbit.
T3.12 The twelve distinct periodic orbits of period ⱕ 5are:
L, KL, JKL, KLL, JKLL, KLLL,
IJKL, JKLLL, KLLLL, KLJKL, KLKLL,andIJKLL.
3.1 (a) a
1
⫽⫺1 4. (b) ⫺
⬁
.(c)a
2
⫽ 3 4. (d) a
3
⫽ 5 4. (e) First find an interval
which maps onto itself. Then find a partition as was done for the logistic map G.
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