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From examining the superfunction for 4z(1-z) about z=0,
)
(one of the few elementary examples for a non-Mobius function), we get:
So [one of] the

iterate of
)
is
^2)
. Putting these functions into the "Mandlebrot" form by conjugating with

, we get that the

iterate of

is

.
I was hoping to include some pictures of the Julia sets of these two functions, but I don't have ready access to a program that can draw general cubic sets (such as the old Autodesk
Chaos program). So I'll try again in the morning, using Fractint.
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(08/13/2010, 06:47 AM)BenStandeven Wrote: I was hoping to include some pictures of the Julia sets of these two functions, but I don't have ready access to a program that can draw general cubic sets (such as the old Autodesk Chaos program). So I'll try again in the morning, using Fractint.
Here is the Julia set of

:
And here is the set for

:
They don't seem to be displaying on my machine, though.
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First Tommy-Ben Conjecture :
let a,b,c be positive integers.
Let X,Y be positive irrational numbers that are linearly independant but they are NOT algebraicly independant.
Nomatter what X,Y are , there is NO non-Möbius closed form function f(x) such that
f^[a + b X + c Y](x)
is also a closed form for every a,b,c.
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Ben's OP was an example where f^[a + b X](x) had a closed form for every a,b. ( X was lb(3) )
Im very very convinced of this conjecture.
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Second Tommy-Ben conjecture :
Let a_i be positive integers and X_i be linear independant positive irrational numbers.
Let n be an integer > 0.
If f^[a + a_1 X + a_2 X_2 + ... + a_n X_n](x) is a closed form for every a_i then the superfunction of f is a composition of at least 2 functions with an addition rule and the X_i are all of the form log(A_i)/log© where the A_i are integers and C is a constant.
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tommy1729