International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 17 (1994), Issue 1, Pages 143-146
doi:10.1155/S0161171294000190
Dynamics of the radix expansion map
Ben Goertzel
, Harold Bowman
and Richard Baker
Department of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas 89154, NV, USA
Abstract
The chaotic dynamics of the map ϕ(x)=(βx+α)(mod1) are studied using Parry's β-expansion. It is shown that for 1<β<2, a≥0, the number of periodic points of period n is 0(βn).