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Bifurcation of unimodal maps

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Here we review some recent results that give a rather complete description of the dynamics of almost all mappings in real analytic families of unimodal maps

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To Jorge Sottomayor on his 60th birthday.

This work has been partially supported by FAPERJ grants E-26/151.896/2000, E-26/151.189/2002.

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de Melo, W. Bifurcation of unimodal maps. Qual. Th. Dyn. Syst 4, 413–424 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02970867

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