We consider two types of non-autonomous 2-periodic Gumovski-Mira difference equations. We show that while the corresponding autonomous recurrences are conjugated, the behavior of the sequences generated by the 2-periodic ...

We consider the problem of characterizing, for certain natural number m, the local C^m-non-integrability near elliptic fixed points of smooth planar measure preserving maps. Our criterion relates this non-integrability ...

We study the existence of periodic solutions of the non--autonomous periodic Lyness' recurrence u_{n+2}=(a_n+u_{n+1})/u_n, where {a_n} is a cycle with positive values a,b and with positive initial conditions. It is known ...

Given two ellipses, one surrounding the other one, Poncelet introduced a map P from the exterior one to itself by using the tangent lines to the interior ellipse. This procedure can be extended to any two smooth, nested ...

We study the dynamics of the piecewise planar rotations $F_{\lambda}(z)=\lambda (z-H(z)), $ with $z\in\C$, $H(z)=1$ if $\mathrm{Im}(z)\ge0,$ $H(z)=-1$ if $\mathrm{Im}(z)<0,$ and $\lambda=\mathrm{e}^{i \alpha} \in\C$, being ...

In this paper, we are interested in analyzing the dynamics of the fourth-order difference equation xn+4 =max{xn+3, xn+2, xn+1, 0} -xn, with arbitrary real initial conditions. We fully determine the accumulation point sets ...

We study the periodic solutions of the non–autonomous periodic Lyness’ recurrence un+2 = (an +un+1)=un, where fangn is a cycle with positive values a,b and with positive initial conditions. Among other methodological issues ...

We show that for periodic non-autonomous discrete dynamical systems, even when a common fixed point for each of the autonomous associated dynamical systems is repeller, this fixed point can became a local attractor for ...

We present a systematic methodology to determine and locate analytically isolated periodic points of discrete and continuous dynamical systems with algebraic nature. We apply this method to a wide range of examples, including ...