A graph-theoretic proof of Sharkovsky's theorem on the periodic points of continuous functions

DOI10.2140/pjm.1981.96.361zbMath0428.26003MaRDI QIDQ1137146

Chung-Wu Ho, Charles Morris

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1981.96.361

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systems; directed graphs; Sharkovsky's theorem; periodic points of a continuous function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

26A16: Lipschitz (Hölder) classes

37C25: Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics

26A18: Iteration of real functions in one variable

05C20: Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments

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