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Courses - Spring 2023
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MATH643
Dynamical Systems II
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud, S-F
Prerequisite: MATH642; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Entropy theory, variational principle for the entropy, expansiveness, measures with maximal entropy. Smooth systems on manifolds, diffeomorphisms and flows, periodic points, stable and unstable manifolds, homoclinic points, transversality, the Krupka-Smale theorem, Morse-Smale systems. Hyperbolicity, Anosov systems, distributions and foliations, strange attractors, Bowen's measure.