Discrete chaos in Banach spaces

This paper is concerned with chaos in discrete dynamical systems governed by continuously Frech@t differentiable maps in Banach spaces. A criterion of chaos induced by a regular nondegenerate homoclinic orbit is established. Chaos of discrete dynamical systems in the n-dimensional real space is also discussed, with two criteria derived for chaos induced by nondegenerate snap-back repellers, one of which is a modified version of Marotto's theorem. In particular, a necessary and sufficient condition is obtained for an expanding fixed point of a differentiate map in a general Banach space and in an n-dimensional real space, respectively. It completely solves a long-standing puzzle about the relationship between the expansion of a continuously differentiable map near a fixed point in an n-dimensional real space and the eigenvalues of the Jacobi matrix of the map at the fixed point.

This paper is concerned with chaos in discrete dynamical systems governed by continuously Frechet differentiable maps in Banach spaces. A criterion of chaos induced by a regular nondegenerate homoclinic orbit is established. Chaos of discrete dynamical systems in the n-dimensional real space is also discussed, with two criteria derived for chaos induced by nondegenerate snap-back repellers, one of which is a modified version of Marotto's theorem. In particular, a necessary and sufficient condition is obtained for an expanding fixed point of a differentiable map in a general Banach space and in an n-dimensional real space, respectively. It completely solves a long-standing puzzle about the relationship between the expansion of a continuously differentiable map near a fixed point in an n-dimensional real space and the eigenvalues of the Jacobi matrix of the map at the fixed point.