Symbolic Toolkit for Chaos Explorations

New computational technique based on the symbolic description utilizing kneading invariants is used for explorations of parametric chaos in a two exemplary systems with the Lorenz attractor: a normal model from mathematics, and a laser model from nonlinear optics. The technique allows for uncovering the stunning complexity and universality of the patterns discovered in the bi-parametric scans of the given models and detects their organizing centers -- codimension-two T-points and separating saddles.Comment: International Conference on Theory and Application in Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND 2012

Canards existence in the Hindmarsh-Rose model

In two previous papers we have proposed a new method for proving the existence of "canard solutions" on one hand for three and four-dimensional singularly perturbed systems with only one fast variable and, on the other hand for four-dimensional singularly perturbed systems with two fast variables [J.M. Ginoux and J. Llibre, Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 15 (2016) 381-431; J.M. Ginoux and J. Llibre, Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. 15 (2015) 342010]. The aim of this work is to extend this method which improves the classical ones used till now to the case of three-dimensional singularly perturbed systems with two fast variables. This method enables to state a unique generic condition for the existence of "canard solutions" for such three-dimensional singularly perturbed systems which is based on the stability of folded singularities (pseudo singular points in this case) of the normalized slow dynamics deduced from a well-known property of linear algebra. Applications of this method to a famous neuronal bursting model enables to show the existence of "canard solutions" in the Hindmarsh-Rose model

Canards existence in the Hindmarsh-Rose model

In two previous papers, we have proposed a new method for proving the existence of "canard solutions" on one hand for three- and four-dimensional singularly perturbed systems with only one fast variable and, on the other hand, for four-dimensional singularly perturbed systems with two fast variables; see [4, 5]. The aim of this work is to extend this method, which improves the classical ones used till now to the case of three-dimensional singularly perturbed systems with two fast variables. This method enables to state a unique generic condition for the existence of "canard solutions" for such three-dimensional singularly perturbed systems which is based on the stability of folded singularities (pseudo singular points in this case) of the normalized slow dynamics deduced from a well-known property of linear algebra. Applications of this method to a famous neuronal bursting model enables to show the existence of "canard solutions" in the Hindmarsh-Rose model

Synchronous bursts on scale-free neuronal networks with attractive and repulsive coupling

This paper investigates the dependence of synchronization transitions of bursting oscillations on the information transmission delay over scale-free neuronal networks with attractive and repulsive coupling. It is shown that for both types of coupling, the delay always plays a subtle role in either promoting or impairing synchronization. In particular, depending on the inherent oscillation period of individual neurons, regions of irregular and regular propagating excitatory fronts appear intermittently as the delay increases. These delay-induced synchronization transitions are manifested as well-expressed minima in the measure for spatiotemporal synchrony. For attractive coupling, the minima appear at every integer multiple of the average oscillation period, while for the repulsive coupling, they appear at every odd multiple of the half of the average oscillation period. The obtained results are robust to the variations of the dynamics of individual neurons, the system size, and the neuronal firing type. Hence, they can be used to characterize attractively or repulsively coupled scale-free neuronal networks with delays.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures; accepted for publication in PLoS ONE [related work available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4961 and http://www.matjazperc.com/

Leonid Shilnikov and mathematical theory of dynamical chaos

This Focus Issue Global Bifurcations, Chaos, and Hyperchaos Theory and Applications is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the great mathematician, one of the founding fathers of dynamical chaos theory, Leonid Pavlovich Shilnikov