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2003

Chemistry

The University of Southern Mississippi

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Markov Chains And Dynamic Geometry Of Polygons, Jiu Ding, L. Richard Hitt, Xin-Min Zhang Jul 2003

Markov Chains And Dynamic Geometry Of Polygons, Jiu Ding, L. Richard Hitt, Xin-Min Zhang

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In this paper we construct sequences of polygons from a given n-sided cyclic polygon by iterated procedures and study the limiting behaviors of these sequences in terms of non-negative matrices and Markov chains. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.