Iterative square roots of functions

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Abstract: An iterative square root of a function f is a function g such that g(g(cdot))=f(cdot). We obtain new characterizations for detecting the non-existence of such square roots for self-maps on arbitrary sets. This is used to prove that continuous self-maps with no square roots are dense in the space of all continuous self-maps for various topological spaces. The spaces studied include those that are homeomorphic to the unit cube in mathbbRm and to the whole of mathbbRm for every positive integer m. On the other hand, we also prove that every continuous self-map of a space homeomorphic to the unit cube in mathbbRm with a fixed point on the boundary can be approximated by iterative squares of continuous self-maps.



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