Nalini Joshi<p>There has been enormous interest in these maps, as they arose from <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/integrable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>integrable</span></a> systems, like the Sine-Gordon equation. The interest grew with the construction of discrete <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Painlev%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painlevé</span></a> equations. The autonomous cases of such equations are QRT maps.</p>