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Keywords:
digraph; iteration digraph; quadratic map; tree; cycle
digraph; iteration digraph; quadratic map; tree; cycle
Summary:
We examine iteration graphs of the squaring function on the rings $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ when $n = 2^{k}p$, for $p$ a Fermat prime. We describe several invariants associated to these graphs and use them to prove that the graphs are not symmetric when $k=3$ and when $k\ge 5$ and are symmetric when $k = 4$.
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