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Obviously every globally stable steady state is also locally stable.

We will see examples below where the converse is not true.

Here is an example where the converse is not true.

```{prf:example}
Consider the self-map $g$ on $\mathbb{R}$ defined by $g(x)=x^2$. The fixed point $1$ is not stable.

For example, $g^t (x)\to\infty$ for any $x>1$.

However, $0$ is locally stable, because $-1<x<1$ implies that $g^t (x)\to 0$ as $t\to\infty$.

Since we have more than one fixed point, $0$ is not globally stable.
```


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