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If f and g are two functions such that \(g\circ g=f\), we say that g is a compositional square root of f. Here we discuss the question as to which maps admit a square root in this sense.
A part of the work was done when the author was a Visiting Professor, C. R. Rao AIIMS, University of Hyderabad.
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Kannan, V. (2020). Existence of Compositional Square-Roots of Functions. In: Roy, P., Cao, X., Li, XZ., Das, P., Deo, S. (eds) Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Modeling. ICMAAM 2018. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 302. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0422-8_10
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