%0 Journal Article %T Non Proliferation of Preimages in Integrable Mappings %A B. Grammaticos %A A. Ramani %A K. M. Tamizhmani %J Physics %D 1994 %I arXiv %R 10.1088/0305-4470/27/2/037 %X We present an integrability criterion for rational mappings based on two requirements. First, that a given point should have a unique preimage under the mapping and, second, that the spontaneously appearing singularities be confined to a few iteration steps. We present several examples of known integrable mappings that meet these requirements and, also, use our algorithm in order to derive new examples of integrable mappings. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9402001v1