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Sublinear discrete-time order-preserving dynamical systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. F. Jiang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Abstract

Suppose that the continuous mapping is order-preserving and sublinear. If every positive semi-orbit has compact closure, then every positive semi-orbit converges to a fixed point. This result does not require that the order be strongly preserved.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996

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