Dynamics, Games and Science I: DYNA 2008, in Honor of Maurício Peixoto and David Rand, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, September 8-12, 2008

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
A Brief Survey of Focal Decomposition....Pages 1-10
Anosov and Circle Diffeomorphisms....Pages 11-23
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies and Replicator Dynamics in Asymmetric Two-Population Games....Pages 25-35
Poverty Traps, Rationality and Evolution....Pages 37-52
Leadership Model....Pages 53-59
Lorenz-Like Chaotic Attractors Revised....Pages 61-79
A Dynamical Point of View of Quantum Information: Entropy and Pressure....Pages 81-121
Generic Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems: An Overview....Pages 123-137
Microeconomic Model Based on MAS Framework: Modeling an Adaptive Producer....Pages 139-157
A Tourist’s Choice Model....Pages 159-167
Computability and Dynamical Systems....Pages 169-181
Dynamics and Biological Thresholds....Pages 183-191
Global Convergence in Difference Equations....Pages 193-219
Networks Synchronizability, Local Dynamics and Some Graph Invariants....Pages 221-238
Continuous Models for Genetic Evolution in Large Populations....Pages 239-242
Forecasting of Yield Curves Using Local State Space Reconstruction....Pages 243-251
KAM Theory as a Limit of Renormalization....Pages 253-270
An Overview of Optimal Life Insurance Purchase, Consumption and Investment Problems....Pages 271-286
Towards a Theory of Periodic Difference Equations and Its Application to Population Dynamics....Pages 287-321
Thompson’s Group, Teichmüller Spaces, and Dual Riemann Surfaces....Pages 323-338
Bargaining Skills in an Edgeworthian Economy....Pages 339-352
Fractional Analysis of Traffic Dynamics....Pages 353-357
The Set of Planar Orbits of Second Species in the RTBP....Pages 359-363
Statistical Properties of the Maximum for Non-Uniformly Hyperbolic Dynamics....Pages 365-374
Adaptive Learning and Central Bank Inattentiveness in Optimal Monetary Policy....Pages 375-383
Discrete Time, Finite State Space Mean Field Games....Pages 385-389
Simple Exclusion Process: From Randomness to Determinism....Pages 391-403
Universality in PSI20 fluctuations....Pages 405-420
Dynamical Systems with Nontrivially Recurrent Invariant Manifolds....Pages 421-470
Some Recent Results on the Stability of Endomorphisms....Pages 471-485
Differential Rigidity and Applications in One-Dimensional Dynamics....Pages 487-502
Minimum Regret Pricing of Contingent Claims in Incomplete Markets....Pages 503-528
A Class of Infinite Dimensional Replicator Dynamics....Pages 529-532
Kinetic Theory for Chemical Reactions Without a Barrier....Pages 533-543
Dynamical Gene-Environment Networks Under Ellipsoidal Uncertainty: Set-Theoretic Regression Analysis Based on Ellipsoidal OR....Pages 545-571
Strategic Interaction in Macroeconomic Policies: An Outline of a New Differential Game Approach....Pages 573-595
Renormalization of Hénon Maps....Pages 597-618
Application of Fractional Calculus in Engineering....Pages 619-629
Existence of Invariant Circles for Infinitely Renormalisable Area-Preserving Maps....Pages 631-636
The Dynamics of Expectations....Pages 637-649
Dynamics on the Circle....Pages 651-659
Rolling Ball Problems....Pages 661-669
On the Dynamics of Certain Models Describing the HIV Infection....Pages 671-688
Tilings and Bussola for Making Decisions....Pages 689-708
A Hotelling-Type Network....Pages 709-720
The Closing Lemma in Retrospect....Pages 721-741
From Peixoto’s Theorem to Palis’s Conjecture....Pages 743-746
Dynamics Associated to Games (Fictitious Play) with Chaotic Behavior....Pages 747-759
A Finite Time Blowup Result for Quadratic ODE’s....Pages 761-762
Relating Material and Space-Time Metrics Within Relativistic Elasticity: A Dynamical Example....Pages 763-767
Strategic Information Revelation Through Real Options in Investment Games....Pages 769-784
On Consumption Indivisibilities, the Demand for Durables, and Income Distribution....Pages 785-809