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On the Number of Periodic Points of Quadratic Dynamical Systems Modulo a Prime

Jakob Streipel
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In 2004 Vasiga and Shallit studied the number of periodic points of two particular discrete quadratic maps modulo prime numbers. They found the asymptotic behaviour of the sum of the number of periodic points for all primes less than some bound, assuming the Extended Riemann Hypothesis. Later that same year Chou and Shparlinski proved this asymptotic result without assuming any unproven hypotheses. Inspired by this we perform experiments and find a striking pattern in the behaviour of the sum of the number of periodic points for quadratic maps other than the two particular ones studied previously. From simulations it appears that the sum of the number of periodic points of all quadratic maps of this type behave the same. Finally we find that numerically the distribution of the amounts of periodic points seems to be Rayleigh.

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Jakob Streipel. 2016-11-02. On the Number of Periodic Points of Quadratic Dynamical Systems Modulo a Prime. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00575

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