- Series
- CDSNS Colloquium
- Time
- Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Sara Lapan – Northwestern University – slapan@math.northwestern.edu – http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~slapan/
- Organizer
- William Gignac
Given a holomorphic map of C^m to itself that fixes a point, what happens to points near that fixed point under iteration? Are there points attracted to (or repelled from) that fixed point and, if so, how? We are interested in understanding how a neighborhood of a fixed point behaves under iteration. In this talk, we will focus on maps tangent to the identity. In dimension one, the Leau-Fatou Flower Theorem provides a beautiful description of the behavior of points in a full neighborhood of a fixed point. This theorem from the early 1900s continues to serve as inspiration for this study in higher dimensions. In dimension 2 our picture of a full neighborhood of a fixed point is still being constructed, but we will discuss some results on what is known, focusing on the existence of a domain of attraction whose points converge to that fixed point.