Abstract
The topological structure of basin boundaries plays a fundamental role in the sensitivity to the final state in chaotic dynamical systems. Herewith we present a study on the dynamics of dissipative systems close to the Hamiltonian limit, emphasizing the increasing number of periodic attractors, and on the structural changes in their basin boundaries as the dissipation approaches zero. We show numerically that a power law with nontrivial exponent describes the growth of the total number of periodic attractors as the damping is decreased. We also establish that for small scales the dynamics is governed by effective dynamical invariants, whose measure depends not only on the region of the phase space but also on the scale under consideration. Therefore, our results show that the concept of effective invariants is also relevant for dissipative systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 026205 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2009 |
Bibliographical note
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- chaos
- fractals
- topology
- basin boundaries
- complexity
- dimension
- systems
- cells