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arxiv: 0711.0312 · v1 · submitted 2007-11-02 · 🧮 math.CO · math.PR

Period Lengths for Iterated Functions

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For random maps, the expected value of the order (i.e. the period of the sequence of compositional iterates) is approximated asymptotically. It is much smaller than the expected value for the product of the cycle lengths.

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