The influence of noise on a classical chaotic scatterer

A classical, chaotic scatterer consisting of three, equal-sized, equidistant hard discs, also known as the Gaspard–Rice system [Gaspard P, Rice SA. Scattering from a classically chaotic repellor. J Chem Phys 1989;90(4):2225–2241] is studied in the presence of white noise. The fractal dimension of the stable manifold is measured using the uncertainty fraction. The volume of the manifold, and thus of the invariant set, when considered in a possibilistic sense, is found to scale with the magnitude of the noise, thus extending the results of Ott et al. [Ott E, York ED, Yorke JA. A scaling law: How an attractors volume depends on noise level. Physica D 1985;16:62–78] from attracting to non-attracting sets.