Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2011/ii/paper-3/7c/i/solution

For the iteration of a map , a fixed point satisfies . If , the bracket is strictly positive, so the sole fixed point is . Its multiplier of a periodic orbit of an iteration is , whose modulus is below one. Thus by fixed point stability for an iteration.

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