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A note on non-periodic demoeconomic fluctuations with positive measure

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Richard H. Day

Kyoo-Hong Kim*

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA


Received 3 July 1986. 
Available online 5 March 2002.

Abstract

Proofs of the existence of non-periodic behavior using sufficient chaos conditions leave open the question as to whether irregular fluctuations are probable for initial conditions drawn at random. It is known that in some cases this probability is zero, thus casting doubt on the importance of chaos as a theoretical characterization of the phenomenon of interest. In this note we consider this issue in the context of a classical demoeconomic model. We show that non-periodic population fluctuations are probable, converging to a limit set with positive measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesque measure.

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* The computations were performed by Weihong Huang.


 
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