Teaching plan for the course unit

General information

Course unit name: Dynamic Systems

Course unit code: 568178

Academic year: 2022-2023

Coordinator: Nuria Fagella Rabionet

Department: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Credits: 6

Single program: S

Estimated learning time Total number of hours 150

Face-to-face and/or online activities 60

- Lecture Face-to-face 30

- Lecture with practical component Face-to-face 30

Supervised project 20

Independent learning 70

Recommendations

• Working knowledge of a programming language.

• To have completed a subject in differential equations and one in complex variables.

Competences to be gained during study

— Capacity to determine the basic elements of the phase portrait of a dynamical system and understand
the dynamic
implications of their features.

— Capacity to understand the basic elements of complex and dimensional dynamics.

— Capacity to understand techniques of local analysis of dynamical systems.

— Capacity to understand basic local bifurcations of families of systems.

— Ability to calculate invariant manifolds and knowledge of the implications of the properties of their
globalization.

Learning objectives

Referring to knowledge

— To learn the different types of dynamical systems and the most common tools used to study
them.
— To understand what research in dynamical systems consists in.
— To know and understand the basic results in each of the topics covered in the course.
— To know the main conjectures in the field of dynamical systems.

Referring to skills, abilities

— To perform introductory research in dynamical systems.

— To learn to analyze a specific specific dynamical system using tools studied in class.
— To learn to programme numerical simulations of simple dynamical systems.
— To learn to research information in databases of articles and preprints.
— To know how to write a report on a mathematical topic.
— To develop communication skills (oral presentations).

Teaching blocks
 1. One dimensional and complex dynamics

1.1. Introduction to dynamical systems, discrete and continuous. Basic terminology.

Conjugacies.

1.2. Dynamical systems in real dimension 1. Introduction and examples. Bifurcations.

Bimodal maps: the quadratic family. Circle homeomorphisms.

1.3. Dynamical Systems on the complex plane. Riemann surfaces and iteration of
holomorphic functions. Normal families: The Fatou and Julia sets. Local theory: periodic
points and linearization. Global theory: connected components of the Fatou set. Parameter
spaces: the Mandelbrot set and main conjectures.

2. N-dimensional dynamics

2.1. Lyapunov stability.

2.2. Local theory: Hartman’s Theorem, Sternberg’s Theorem and invariant manifolds.

2.3. Normal forms and bifurcations.

2.4. Hyperbolic dynamics.

Teaching methods and general organization

Face-to-face learning activities include lectures and problem-solving exercises and related discussion in
class. Depending on the sanitary conditions part or all of these activities will be on line, using the
university facilities. The two thematic blocks of the course may be given by different teachers.

There are 30 hours of directed work assigned to the introductory research project. This project is to be
presented at the end of the course in a seminar class, attendance at which is compulsory for all students.
Depending on the sanitary circumstances the presentations will be made online.

Official assessment of learning outcomes

Continuous assessment is based on the completion of problem-solving exercises set throughout the
course, for which answers must be handed in to the teacher. The completion and presentation of a final
project is also taken into account. Marks for the problem-solving exercises comprise 70% of the final
 grade. The marks awarded for the project and the presentation make up the remaining 30%.

Students may apply for a repeat assessment. To qualify for this, the final project must have been
completed and presented. Repeat assessment consists of an on-site examination. The exam may be done
on line. Weightings for the final grade in this case are: final project, 30% and examination, 70%.

Examination-based assessment

Students who wish to opt for a single assessment must inform the Secretary by the date set in the Faculty
calendar.

Single assessment consists of a project (30% of the final grade) and an on-site examination (the
remaining 70%). The exam may be done on line.

Reading and study resources

Consulteu la disponibilitat a CERCABIB

Book

L. Carleson and T. Gamelin, Complex dynamics, Springer Verlag, 1993.

C.Chicone,Ordinary differential equations with applications, Texts in Applied Mathematics, 34. Springer-
Verlag,
New York, 1999.

R.L.Devaney, An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, Westview Pres (Second Edition), 2003.

J.Guckenheimer and P. Holmes, Nonlinear oscillations, dynamical systems, and bifurcations of vector fields,
Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982.

J.Palis and W.de Melo, Geometric theory of dynamical systems. An introduction, Springer-Verlag, New York-
Berlin, 1982.

W.de Melo, S.van Strien, One-Dimensional Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

J.Milnor, Dynamics in One Complex Variable, Annals of Mathematical Studies (Third Edition), 2006.
See also http://www.math.sunysb.edu/dynamics/surveys.html (IMS at Stony Brook Preprint n.1990/5
(1992)).

J.Sotomayor, Liçoes de equaçoes diferenciais ordinárias,

Projeto Euclides, 11. Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, 1979.
V.I. Arnol’d, Chapitres suppl\’ementaires de la th\’eorie des \’equations diff\’erentielles ordinaires, ``Mir’’,
Moscow, 1984.

D. Arrowsmith, C.M.Place, Dynamical systems. Differential equations, maps and chaotic behaviour,
Chapman and Hall Mathematics Series, Chapman and Hall, London, 1992.
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