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Hyperbolic Chaos of Turing Patterns
We consider time evolution of Turing patterns in an extended system governed
by an equation of the Swift-Hohenberg type, where due to an external periodic
parameter modulation long-wave and short-wave patterns with length scales
related as 1:3 emerge in succession. We show theoretically and demonstrate
numerically that the spatial phases of the patterns, being observed
stroboscopically, are governed by an expanding circle map, so that the
corresponding chaos of Turing patterns is hyperbolic, associated with a strange
attractor of the Smale-Williams solenoid type. This chaos is shown to be robust
with respect to variations of parameters and boundary conditions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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