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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 1 32A b i Solution by
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Write the period-three points in increasing order and take the two intervals between consecutive points. For either possible cyclic ordering, the interval-covering transition graph is, after interchanging its vertices,The loop at the first vertex gives a fixed point. For every , the closed itineraryhas least period . The interval-covering periodic-orbit theorem supplies a point with that itinerary and therefore a cycle of least period . Thus has periodic orbits of every positive period. This is the period-three case of the Sharkovsky theorem.
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