Published December 11, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Fibonacci order in the period-doubling cascade to chaos

  • 1. Facultad de Ciencias UAEM, Avenida Universidad 1001, Colonia Chamilpa, C.P. 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)
  • 2. Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Colonia Chamilpa, C.P. 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)
  • 3. Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6045 (United States)

Description

In this contribution, we describe how the Fibonacci sequence appears within the Feigenbaum scaling of the period-doubling cascade to chaos. An important consequence of this discovery is that the ratio of successive Fibonacci numbers converges to the golden mean in every period-doubling sequence and therefore the convergence to φ, the most irrational number, occurs in concert with the onset of deterministic chaos

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2006.07.036;
PII
S0375-9601(06)01142-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
359
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 638-639
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38067339
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CHAOS THEORY; CONVERGENCE; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; PERIODICITY
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICS; VARIATIONS

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.