Robledo, A - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 314 (2002) 1, pp. 437-441
We examine the pitchfork and tangent bifurcations in unimodal maps to illustrate a connection between renormalization group (RG) fixed points and entropy extremal properties. We observe that the exact RG solution for the tangent bifurcation is also applicable to the period-doubling cascade and...