Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4660631 Topology and its Applications 2007 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

A special case of Sarkovskii's theorem says that if a continuous function has a period-3 point then it has periodic points of every order. In this note we will investigate how often orbit types of period-n guarantee a period-3 point. An informal statement of our result is that as n goes to infinity the probability that a period-n orbit guarantees a period-3 point converges to 1.

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