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Almost integrable mappings. (English) Zbl 0804.58045
Summary: We analyze birational transformations obtained from very simple algebraic calculations, namely taking the inverse of $q \times q$ matrices and permuting some of the entries of these matrices. We concentrate on $4 \times 4$ matrices and elementary transpositions of two entries. This analysis brings out six classes of birational transformations. Three classes correspond to integrable mappings, their iteration yielding elliptic curves. Generically, the iterations corresponding to the three other classes are included in higher dimensional non-trivial algebraic varieties. Nevertheless some orbits of the parameter space lie on (transcendental) curves. These transformations act on fifteen (or $q\sp 2 - 1$) variables, however one can associate to them remarkably simple non- linear recurrences bearing on a single variable. The study of these last recurrences gives a complementary understanding of these amazingly regular non-integrable mappings, which could provide interesting tools to analyze weak chaos.

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 37K35 Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations 14E05 Rational and birational maps 14J50 Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties 82B20 Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs 82C20 Dynamic lattice systems and systems on graphs
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