ON A THEOREM OF K. T. CHEN,
Abstract
The report describes mappings M of the real line into itself of the form M: x sub 1 = x + hx sup nu + f(x). Recently, K. T. Chen proved, via the Schauder Fixed Point Theorem, that M possessed the normal form x sub 1 = x + hx + c(x sup (2nu - 1)). Here the Contracting Mapping Principle is used to prove that M has the normal form x sub 1 = x + hx sup nu thus eliminating the extraneous term c(x sup (2nu - 1)). The main idea is to derive sharp estimates on how fast the iterates of a point enter or leave the origin. It is to be noted that the methods developed here can be generalized to prove the existence of invariant manifolds for differential equations whose linear part has one eigenvalue zero. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 13, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0712706
Entities
People
- Martin Braun
Organizations
- Brown University