Bifurcation and chaos in real dynamics of a two-parameter family arising from generating function of generalized Apostol-type polynomials (Q1649306)

Summary: The aim of this paper is to investigate the bifurcation and chaotic behaviour in the two-parameter family of transcendental functions \(f_{\lambda, n}(x) = \lambda \frac{x}{(e^x + 1)^n}\), \(\lambda > 0\), \(x \in \mathbb R\), \(n \in \mathbb N\backslash \{1\}\) which arises from the generating function of the generalized Apostol-type polynomials. The existence of the real fixed points of \(f_{\lambda, n}(x)\) and their stability are studied analytically and the periodic points of \(f_{\lambda, n}(x)\) are computed numerically. The bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponents are simulated; these demonstrate chaotic behaviour in the dynamical system of the function \(f_{\lambda, n}(x)\) for certain ranges of parameter \(\lambda\).