EQUICONTINUITY OF ITERATES OF AN INTERVAL MAP

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A. M. Bruckner
Thakyin Hu

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The purpose of this paper is to determine conditions under which equicontinuity of the family of iterates $\{f_n\}$ of a continuous function that maps a compact interval $I$ into itself does occur. We shall see that this happens ouly under exceptional circumstances.




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Bruckner, A. M., & Hu , T. (1990). EQUICONTINUITY OF ITERATES OF AN INTERVAL MAP. Tamkang Journal of Mathematics, 21(3), 287–294. https://doi.org/10.5556/j.tkjm.21.1990.4691
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