Discrete dynamical models
By: Ernesto Salinelli, Franco Tomarelli
Contributors: Tomarelli, Franco, author
Series: UNITEXT -- 76; Unitext -- 76.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cham; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9783319022901; 9783319022918
Subjects: Mathematics; Matrix theory; Functional equations; Differentiable dynamical systems; Dynamics; Mathematical models
Description: This book provides an introduction to the analysis of discrete dynamical systems. The content is presented by an unitary approach that blends the perspective of mathematical modeling together with the ones of several discipline as Mathematical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Systems Theory and Probability. After a preliminary discussion of several models, the main tools for the study of linear and non-linear scalar dynamical systems are presented, paying particular attention to the stability analysis. Linear difference equations are studied in detail and an elementary introduction of Z and Discrete Fourier Transform is presented. A whole chapter is devoted to the study of bifurcations and chaotic dynamics. One-step vector-valued dynamical systems are the subject of three chapters, where the reader can find the applications to positive systems, Markov chains, networks and search engines. The book is addressed mainly to students in Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics. The exposition is self-contained: some appendices present prerequisites, algorithms and suggestions for computer simulations. The analysis of several examples is enriched by the proposition of many related exercises of increasing difficulty; in the last chapter the detailed solution is given for most of them. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Recursive phenomena and difference equations; title: Linear difference equations; title: Discrete dynamical systems: one-step scalar equations; title: Complex behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems: bifurcations and chaos; title: Discrete dynamical systems: vector equations; title: Markov chains; title: Matrix; title: Solutions.