Paper 3, Section I, C
Part II, 2011
For the map , with , show the following:
(i) If , then the origin is the only fixed point and is stable.
(ii) If , then the origin is unstable. There are two further fixed points which are stable for and unstable for .
(iii) If , then has the same sign as the starting value if .
(iv) If , then when . Deduce that iterates starting sufficiently close to the origin remain bounded, though they may change sign.
[Hint: For (iii) and (iv) a graphical representation may be helpful.]