Author : Hyman Bass
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540478124
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Cyclic Renormalization and Automorphism Groups of Rooted Trees by : Hyman Bass
Download or read book Cyclic Renormalization and Automorphism Groups of Rooted Trees written by Hyman Bass and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the monograph is an interplay between dynamical systems and group theory. The authors formalize and study "cyclic renormalization", a phenomenon which appears naturally for some interval dynamical systems. A possibly infinite hierarchy of such renormalizations is naturally represented by a rooted tree, together with a "spherically transitive" automorphism; the infinite case corresponds to maps with an invariant Cantor set, a class of particular interest for its relevance to the description of the transition to chaos and of the Mandelbrot set. The normal subgroup structure of the automorphism group of such "spherically homogeneous" rooted trees is investigated in some detail. This work will be of interest to researchers in both dynamical systems and group theory.