65 research outputs found
Chaotic self-similar wave maps coupled to gravity
We continue our studies of spherically symmetric self-similar solutions in
the SU(2) sigma model coupled to gravity. For some values of the coupling
constant we present numerical evidence for the chaotic solution and the fractal
threshold behavior. We explain this phenomenon in terms of horseshoe-like
dynamics and heteroclinic intersections.Comment: 25 pages, 17 figure
Periodic Cycles and Bifurcation Curves for One-Dimensional Maps with Two Discontinuities
Interruption of torus doubling bifurcation and genesis of strange nonchaotic attractors in a quasiperiodically forced map : Mechanisms and their characterizations
A simple quasiperiodically forced one-dimensional cubic map is shown to
exhibit very many types of routes to chaos via strange nonchaotic attractors
(SNAs) with reference to a two-parameter space. The routes include
transitions to chaos via SNAs from both one frequency torus and period doubled
torus. In the former case, we identify the fractalization and type I
intermittency routes. In the latter case, we point out that atleast four
distinct routes through which the truncation of torus doubling bifurcation and
the birth of SNAs take place in this model. In particular, the formation of
SNAs through Heagy-Hammel, fractalization and type--III intermittent mechanisms
are described. In addition, it has been found that in this system there are
some regions in the parameter space where a novel dynamics involving a sudden
expansion of the attractor which tames the growth of period-doubling
bifurcation takes place, giving birth to SNA. The SNAs created through
different mechanisms are characterized by the behaviour of the Lyapunov
exponents and their variance, by the estimation of phase sensitivity exponent
as well as through the distribution of finite-time Lyapunov exponents.Comment: 27 pages, RevTeX 4, 16 EPS figures. Phys. Rev. E (2001) to appea
Basins of attraction
Many remarkable properties related to chaos have been found in the dynamics of nonlinear physical systems. These properties are often seen in detailed computer studies, but it is almost always impossible to establish these properties rigorously for specific physical systems. This article presents some strange properties about basins of attraction. In particular, a basin of attraction is a ''Wada basin'' if every point on the common boundary of that basin and another basin is also on the boundary of a third basin. The occurrence of this strange property can be established precisely because of the concept of a basin cell.</p
Does an unstable Keynesian unemployment equilibrium in a non-Walrasian dynamic macromodel imply chaos?
Dynamics: Numerical explorations, second, revised and expanded edition, accompanied by software program Dynamics (version 2)
Dynamics: Numerical explorations, second, revised and expanded edition, accompanied by software program Dynamics (version 2)
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