The Impossibility of Unstable, Globally Attracting Fixed Points for Continuous Mappings of the Line

DOI10.2307/2974585zbMath0876.58027OpenAlexW4254833192MaRDI QIDQ4339333

Hassan Sedaghat

Publication date: 25 November 1997

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2974585

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityfixed pointcontinuous mapping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Fixed-point theorems (47H10) Iteration of real functions in one variable (26A18) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75)

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