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Register a new userComputing a Solution of Feigenbaums Functional Equation in Polynomial Time
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Peter Hertling
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2014
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Lanford has shown that Feigenbaums functional equation has an analytic solution. We show that this solution is a polynomial time computable function. This implies in particular that the so-called first Feigenbaum constant is a polynomial time computable real number.
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