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, a0, the number of periodic points of period n is 0(βn).