Period Doubling

A characteristic of some systems making a transition to chaos. Doubling is followed by quadrupling, etc. An example of a map displaying period doubling is the logistic map.

See also

Chaos, Logistic Map

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Period Doubling." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PeriodDoubling.html

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