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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at Schreiber building 006