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This document provides details about a graduate course on dynamical functional equations and their applications. The 10-hour course, delivered over 5 two-hour lectures, will cover topics such as iteration, fixed points, stability, functional equations like Schroder's and Abel's, and applications to nonlinear dynamics, renormalization, and critical phenomena. The course is intended for first year graduate students and beyond and assumes background in real and complex analysis and ordinary differential equations.

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Dynamical Functional Equations PDF

This document provides details about a graduate course on dynamical functional equations and their applications. The 10-hour course, delivered over 5 two-hour lectures, will cover topics such as iteration, fixed points, stability, functional equations like Schroder's and Abel's, and applications to nonlinear dynamics, renormalization, and critical phenomena. The course is intended for first year graduate students and beyond and assumes background in real and complex analysis and ordinary differential equations.

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LTCC COURSE IN DYNAMICAL FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS AND

THEIR APPLICATIONS

• Course Title: Dynamical Functional Equations and their Applications


• Core Audience: First year graduate students and beyond
• Course Format: Extended (10 hours at 2 hours per week)
• Keywords: functional equation, iteration, nonlinear dynamics, renormalization, lin-
earization, Schröder and Abel equations
• Lectures. Five two-hour lectures on the following topics:
(1) Overview of elementary concepts from dynamical systems: iteration, fixed
points and periodic orbits, stability, conjugacy and semi-conjugacy, fundamen-
tal domains. We shall also give a brief overview the most important classical
examples of dynamical systems.
(2) Dynamical Functional equations: introduction and examples.
(3) One dimensional Schröder’s equation: properties, solution, applications. Higher
dimensional examples: linearization of maps and differential equations around
fixed/equilibrium points
(4) Abel’s equation, properties, solution, and applications. The one-dimensional
linear functional equation, including applications to log-periodic power laws in
the natural sciences and finance.
(5) Linear functional equations, definition, relationship to iterated function sys-
tems, spectral and other properties of associated operators. Examples and
applications.
(6) Nonlinear functional equations, examples including the Feigenbaum functional
equation, solution methods, application to critical phenomena in dynamical
systems.
• Format
(1) Four exercise sheets
(2) Electronic notes (to be made available after end of course, if not earlier)
• Prerequisites: Standard undergraduate courses in real and complex analysis and
ordinary differential equations. Some knowledge of nonlinear dynamical systems
would be an advantage but is not necessary.
• References
– Jaroslav Smı́tal, On Functions and Functional Equations, Adam Hilger, 1988,
ISBN 0852744188. (This is a nice introduction to functional equations.)
– Marek Kuczma, Bogdan Choczewski, Roman Ger, Iterative Functional Equa-
tions Issue 32 of Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, ISSN 0953-
4806, Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0521355613, 9780521355612
2 LTCC COURSE IN DYNAMICAL FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

(This is a comprehensive book on functional equations, suitable for those who


wish to take their studies further.)
• Lecturer details: Dr Ben Mestel (Open University), [email protected]

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