Tel-Aviv University
School of Mathematical Sciences
Department Colloquium
Monday, April 12, 2010
Schreiber 006, 13:00
Dmitry Turaev
Ben-Gurion University
On maps close to identity
Abstract:
We show that arbitrarily small smooth perturbations of the identity map
of a ball can lead to arbitrarily complicated dynamics. Namely, we call a map
of an n-dimensional ball universal if its iterations provide arbitrarily good approximations
to all possible maps of the ball, and show that the universal maps exist arbitrarily close to the identity.

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