Published June 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

Outer Tangency Bifurcations of Chaotic Sets

  • 1. Institute for Plasma Research and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)
  • 4. Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology and Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)

Description

We present and explain numerical results illustrating the mechanism of a type of discontinuous bifurcation of a chaotic set that occurs in typical dynamical systems. After the bifurcation, the chaotic set acquires new pieces located at a finite distance from its location just before the bifurcation, and these new pieces were not part of a previously existing chaotic set. A scaling law is given describing the creation of unstable periodic orbits following such a bifurcation. We also provide numerical evidence of such a bifurcation for a nonattracting chaotic set of the Hacute enon map. copyright 1998 The American Physical Society

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
p. 4867-4870
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
29052622
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BIFURCATION; MAPS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SCALING LAWS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICS