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We investigate 2-periodic points of a certain class of dynamical systems defined over the field of p-adic numbers. We determine the topological properties of these points and the nature of the smallest finite extension in which the periodic points reside.
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Svensson, PA. Two-periodic dynamics in finite extensions of the p-adic number field. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 265, 235–241 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543809020229
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