-- card: 2407 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 2811 -- name: -- part contents for background part 22 ----- text ----- Period-doubling is the process where, as a physical parameter is varied, a limit cycle of the system (or a fixed point of a map), with • frequency f, period T=2π/f, loses stability to a limit cycle of • frequency f/2, period 2T, which later loses stability to a limit cycle of • frequency f/4, period 4T, which later loses stability to a limt cycle of • frequency f/8, period 8T, which . . .