Chaos induced by regular snap-back repellers

This paper is concerned with chaos induced by regular snap-back repellers. One new criterion of chaos induced by strictly coupled-expanding maps in compact sets of metric spaces is established. By employing this criterion, the nondegenerateness assumption in the Marotto theorem established in 1978 is weakened. In addition, it is proved that a regular snap-back repeller and a regular homoclinic orbit to a regular expanding fixed point in finite-dimensional spaces imply chaos in the sense of Li-Yorke. An illustrative example is provided with computer simulations.     

CHAOS IN AN INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL PREDATOR-PREY MODEL

A deterministic predator-prey model describing populations as collections of autonomous individuals was used to investigate population dynamics as an emergent property of individual behaviors and actions in a simulated environment. The model's behavior was clearly chaotic for both the two species interaction and for the prey population alone. Furthermore, estimated parameters from a simple difference equation model fitted to the single-species simulation were nowhere near the chaotic region for the equation. Findings indicate that chaos may very well be characteristic of biological populations despite the findings of several empirical studies in the past, and that chaotic models can be constructed from direct observation of, and experimentation with, biological populations by focusing on individuals and their behaviors, rather than on population parameters.     

Adaptive synchronization between two different hyperchaotic systems

This work presents chaos synchronization between two different hyperchaotic systems using adaptive control. The sufficient conditions for achieving synchronization of two high dimensional chaotic systems are derived based on Lyapunov stability theory, and an adaptive control law and a parameter update rule for unknown parameters are given such that generalized Henon–Heiles system is controlled to be hyperchaotic Chen system. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations are shown to verify the results.     

Chaos synchronization and encoding in coupled semiconductor lasers of multiple modulated time delays

We numerically investigate the synchronization performance of unidirectionally and bidirectionally coupled chaotic semiconductor lasers subject to multiple modulated time delays optical feedbacks. Moreover, by studying the autocorrelation function of the coherent feedback semiconductor laser output, we find that the signatures of time delays can be erased in systems incorporating modulated feedback time delays, which largely improve the system security. Finally, chaos masking switching (CMS) is utilized to examine the communication ability. Numerical results indicate that the messages could be successfully recovered both in unidirectionally and bidirectionally coupled lasers, which confirms the possibility of applying multiple modulated delay system in optical chaos secure communication.     

Boundary crisis and transient in a dissipative relativistic standard map

Some dynamical properties for a problem concerning the acceleration of particles in a wave packet are studied. The model is described in terms of a two-dimensional nonlinear map obtained from a Hamiltonian which describes the motion of a relativistic standard map. The phase space is mixed in the sense that there are regular and chaotic regions coexisting. When dissipation is introduced, the property of area preservation is broken and attractors emerge. We have shown that a tiny increase of the dissipation causes a change in the phase space. A chaotic attractor as well as its basin of attraction are destroyed thereby leading the system to experience a boundary crisis. We have characterized such a boundary crisis via a collision of the chaotic attractor with the stable manifold of a saddle fixed point. Once the chaotic attractor is destroyed, a chaotic transient described by a power law with exponent −1 is observed.     

Solitary wave interactions in lattice systems with pure higher-order nonlinearity

In this paper, we investigate in detail the interactions of solitary waves in lattice systems with interaction potential V(q)=qⁿ/n, where n is 4,6,8…, through their all possible collision types, and establish a quantitative connection between the scattering property of solitary waves and the chaotic dynamics of the systems. Kink and antikink are excited in such lattice systems and the variation of their scattering effect with n is concerned. After a kink-antikink collision, the dominant interaction in the systems, if n is small, is that solitary waves pass through each other and the scattering effect increases with n; if n is large, solitary waves reflect back sometimes due to the influence of phase and this leads to a decrease of the scattering effect with n. The largest Lyapunov exponents of systems at fixed energy density first increase and then decrease with n, which is consistent with a variation of the scattering effect. The application of the special scattering behaviors between kink and antikink in information propagation is also discussed.     

Chaos control of fractional order Rabinovich–Fabrikant system and synchronization between chaotic and chaos controlled fractional order Rabinovich–Fabrikant system

In this article the local stability of the Rabinovich–Fabrikant (R–F) chaotic system with fractional order time derivative is analyzed using fractional Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion. Feedback control method is used to control chaos in the considered fractional order system and after controlling the chaos the authors have introduced the synchronization between fractional order non-chaotic R–F system and the chaotic R–F system at various equilibrium points. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. Numerical simulation results which are carried out using Adams–Boshforth–Moulton method show that the method is effective and reliable for synchronizing the systems.     

On the fractional-order extended Kalman filter and its application to chaotic cryptography in noisy environment

In this paper via a novel method of discretized continuous-time Kalman filter, the problem of synchronization and cryptography in fractional-order systems has been investigated in presence of noisy environment for process and output signals. The fractional-order Kalman filter equation, applicable for linear systems, and its extension called the extended Kalman filter, which can be used for nonlinear systems, are derived. The result is utilized for chaos synchronization with the aim of cryptography while the transmitter system is fractional-order, and both the transmitter and transmission channel are noisy. The fractional-order stochastic chaotic Chen system is then presented to apply the proposed method for chaotic signal cryptography. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Chaotic dynamics of the heat semigroup on Riemannian symmetric spaces

We show that the heat semigroup generated by certain perturbations of the Laplace–Beltrami operator on the Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type is chaotic   on their L^p$L^p$-spaces when 2<p<∞$2<p<\infty$. Both the range of p and the range of chaos-inducing perturbation are sharp. This extends a result of Ji and Weber [17] where it was shown that under identical conditions the heat operator is subspace-chaotic on these spaces.     

Bifurcation analysis in a discrete differential-algebraic predator–prey system

The discrete-time predator–prey biological economic system obtained by Euler method is investigated. Some conditions for the system to undergo flip bifurcation and Neimark–Sacker bifurcation are derived by using new normal form of differential-algebraic system, center mainfold theorem and bifurcation theory. Numerical simulations are given to show the effectiveness of our results and also to exhibit period-doubling bifurcation in orbits of period 2, 4, 8 and chaotic sets. The results obtained here reveal far richer dynamics in discrete differential-algebraic biological economic system. The contents are interesting in mathematics and biology.