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- From: israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: "Critical Points" for non-analytic functions
- Date: 22 Nov 92 09:35:33 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- In <1992Nov21.154035.5381@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmitchel@nyx.cs.du.edu (lloyd mitchell) writes:
-
- >In sci.math, a question was asked about taking the derivative of a non-
- >analytic complex function. In particular, the poster was trying to
- >differentiate
-
- > f(z) = y + ix, where z = x + iy.
-
- >My question is this: For such functions, is there any such point that
- >corresponds to a critical point for analytic functions? I'm curious
- >because I'd like to generate Mandelbrot-type sets for some functions of
- >this nature, and I wonder where one would begin iterating. (For analytic
- >functions, Mandelbrot images are generated by beginning the iteration
- >at a critical point.)
-
- >Thanks for any info,
- >Kerry Mitchell
-
- You can always regard the complex plane as R^2, so you have a mapping from
- R^2 to R^2. The derivative in this context is the Jacobian matrix, and a
- "critical point" would be one where the Jacobian has determinant 0. These
- would tend to occur on curves, however, not isolated points. The dynamics
- of arbitrary differentiable maps from R^2 to itself might be quite
- complicated compared to analytic functions, and I don't think there's an
- awful lot that can be said about it in general. In particular, there may be
- no good reason to start iterating at any particular point.
-
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- Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
- Department of Mathematics or israel@unixg.ubc.ca
- University of British Columbia
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