I came across an article regarding Arnold's Cat Map, and it briefly mentions the period of the transformations.
To add some detail, it considers the cat or whatever it may be on a pixel map that is $p$ pixels wide. Since it is a unit square, it has $p^2$ pixels. To identify each point, one can label each pixel by a Cartesian coordinate of the form $(m/p, n/p)$.
To throw it out there, Arnold's Cat map is defined in matrix notation as follows
$\Gamma(\begin{bmatrix}x \\y\end{bmatrix}) =\begin{bmatrix}1 & 1 \\1 & 2\end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix}x \\ y\end{bmatrix}mod \hspace{1mm}1$
Knowing the unique position of each pixel, one can find the period of the pixel map. If the point is rational, it will eventually return to its original position. However, each point may have a different period. So the period of the pixel map has to be a multiple of each point's period. To define that relationship, we let $\Pi(p)$ denote the least common multiple of the periods of all the pixel points in the map where $\Pi(p)$ is the smallest integer that is divisible by all of the periods.
The article I was reading was considering a pixel map with width $p=101$. However, it simple says $\Pi(101) = 25$. The only other detail it provides is that if $p=101$ then all the points have period $1, 5, or \hspace{1mm}25.$ That's all the detail I have.
There are a few exercises relating to this. For instance,
$\Pi(p) = 3p$ iff $p=2*5^k$ for $k=1,2,...$
Find $\Pi(250)$, $\Pi(25)$...
Basically, how could I calculate these periods? The article didn't provide any examples.
Any feedback is appreciated.