Periodic orbit analysis at the onset of the unstable dimension variability and at the blowout bifurcation

Many chaotic dynamical systems of physical interest present a strong form of nonhyperbolicity called unstable dimension variability (UDV), for which the chaotic invariant set contains periodic orbits possessing different numbers of unstable eigendirections. The onset of UDV is usually related to the loss of transversal stability of an unstable fixed point embedded in the chaotic set. In this paper, we present a new mechanism for the onset of UDV, whereby the period of the unstable orbits losing transversal stability tends to infinity as we approach the onset of UDV. This mechanism is unveiled by means of a periodic orbit analysis of the invariant chaotic attractor for two model dynamical systems with phase spaces of low dimensionality, and seems to depend heavily on the chaotic dynamics in the invariant set. We also described, for these systems, the blowout bifurcation (for which the chaotic set as a whole loses transversal stability) and its relation with the situation where the effects of UDV are the most intense. For the latter point, we found that chaotic trajectories off, but very close to, the invariant set exhibit the same scaling characteristic of the so-called on-off intermittency.     

Mechanisms for the development of unstable dimension variability and the breakdown of shadowing in coupled chaotic systems

A chaotic attractor containing unstable periodic orbits with different numbers of unstable directions is said to exhibit unstable dimension variability (UDV). We present general mechanisms for the progressive development of UDV in uni- and bidirectionally coupled systems of chaotic elements. Our results are applicable to systems of dissimilar elements without invariant manifolds. We also quantify the severity of UDV to identify coupling ranges where the shadowability and modelability of such systems are significantly compromised.     

Controlling chaos in a high dimensional system with periodic parametric perturbations

The effect of applying a periodic perturbation to an accessible parameter of a high-dimensional (coupled-Lorenz) chaotic system is examined. Numerical results indicate that perturbation frequencies near the natural frequencies of the unstable periodic orbits of the chaotic system can result in limit cycles or significantly reduced dimension for relatively small perturbations.     

动力学变换法探测连续系统不稳定周期轨道

本文利用动力学变换方法和庞加莱截面方法对两种连续混沌动力学系统进行不稳定周期轨道探测研究, 并对Lorenz系统进行了替代数据法检验.结果表明:基于庞加莱截面的动力学变换改进算法 可有效探测连续混沌动力学系统中的不稳定周期轨道.     

三维单向拉伸马蹄的寻找及其在Compass行走模型中的应用

对三维映射,因维数较高,混沌吸引子结构复杂.根据混沌吸引子维数相对较低的特点,在选定不稳定周期轨的附近,对吸引子的局部进行曲面拟合,提出了三维空间中单向拉伸拓扑马蹄的“降维-升维”寻找方法,并实现为MATLAB工具箱.以Compass行走模型为例,详细介绍拓扑马蹄的寻找过程,判定了混沌步态的存在性,刻画了混沌不变集的部分结构.     

基于集合经验模态分解的类星体光变周期及其混沌特性分析

基于密歇根大学射电天文台数据库中从1965年到2012年收集的类星体3C 345,3C 273和3C 279在射电8.0 GHz的光变数据,利用集合经验模态分解方法将这些类星体的光变资料分解为周期项、趋势项和高频项,并对分解后的高频项计算其饱和关联维数、最大Lyapunov指数和Kolmogorov熵,判断是否具有混沌性.结果表明,这些类星体的光变不仅具有周期性,也具有明显的混沌特性,表明类星体光变应为产生周期性运动的物理机制和产生混沌现象的非线性机制的综合结果.     

Characterization of transition to chaos with multiple positive Lyapunov exponents by unstable periodic orbits

We investigate how the transition to chaos with multiple positive Lyapunov exponents can be characterized by the set of infinite number of unstable periodic orbits embedded in the chaotic invariant set. We argue and provide numerical confirmation that the transition is generally accompanied by a nonhyperbolic behavior: unstable dimension variability. As a consequence, the Lyapunov exponents, except for the largest one, pass through zero continuously.     

On a simple recursive control algorithm automated and applied to an electrochemical experiment

We review a simple recursive proportional feedback (RPF) control strategy for stabilizing unstable periodic orbits found in chaotic attractors. The method is generally applicable to high-dimensional systems and stabilizes periodic orbits even if they are completely unstable, i.e., have no stable manifolds. The goal of the control scheme is the fixed point itself rather than a stable manifold and the controlled system reaches the fixed point in d+1 steps, where d is the dimension of the state space of the Poincare map. We provide a geometrical interpretation of the control method based on an extended phase space. Controllability conditions or special symmetries that limit the possibility of using a single control parameter to control multiply unstable periodic orbits are discussed. An automated adaptive learning algorithm is described for the application of the control method to an experimental system with no previous knowledge about its dynamics. The automated control system is used to stabilize a period-one orbit in an experimental system involving electrodissolution of copper. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.     

Analytical study of chaos and applications

We summarize various cases where chaotic orbits can be described analytically. First we consider the case of a magnetic bottle where we have non-resonant and resonant ordered and chaotic orbits. In the sequence we consider the hyperbolic Hénon map, where chaos appears mainly around the origin, which is an unstable periodic orbit. In this case the chaotic orbits around the origin are represented by analytic series (Moser series). We find the domain of convergence of these Moser series and of similar series around other unstable periodic orbits. The asymptotic manifolds from the various unstable periodic orbits intersect at homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits that are given analytically. Then we consider some Hamiltonian systems and we find their homoclinic orbits by using a new method of analytic prolongation. An application of astronomical interest is the domain of convergence of the analytical series that determine the spiral structure of barred-spiral galaxies.     

Crossing bifurcations and unstable dimension variability

A crisis is a global bifurcation in which a chaotic attractor has a discontinuous change in size or suddenly disappears as a scalar parameter of the system is varied. In this Letter, we describe a global bifurcation in three dimensions which can result in a crisis. This bifurcation does not involve a tangency and cannot occur in maps of dimension smaller than 3. We present evidence of unstable dimension variability as a result of the crisis. We then derive a new scaling law describing the density of the new portion of the attractor formed in the crisis. We illustrate this new type of bifurcation with a specific example of a three-dimensional chaotic attractor undergoing a crisis.     

Stickiness in mushroom billiards

We investigate the dynamical properties of chaotic trajectories in mushroom billiards. These billiards present a well-defined simple border between a single regular region and a single chaotic component. We find that the stickiness of chaotic trajectories near the border of the regular region occurs through an infinite number of marginally unstable periodic orbits. These orbits have zero measure, thus not affecting the ergodicity of the chaotic region. Notwithstanding, they govern the main dynamical properties of the system. In particular, we show that the marginally unstable periodic orbits explain the periodicity and the power-law behavior with exponent gamma=2 observed in the distribution of recurrence times.     

Phase locked periodic solutions and synchronous chaos in a model of two coupled molecular lasers

We study a rate-equation model for two coupled molecular lasers with a saturable absorber. A numerical bifurcation study shows the existence of isolas for in-phase periodic solutions as physical parameters change. In addition there are other non-isola families of in-phase, anti-phase and intermediate-phase periodic oscillations. In this model the unstable periodic orbits belonging to the in-phase isolas constitute a skeleton of the attractor, when chaotic synchronization sets in for a set of physically relevant control parameters.     

GLOBAL CHAOS CONTROL OF NON-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

This study describes a global approach of controlling chaos to reduce tedious waiting time caused by using conventional local controllers. With Euler's method, a non-autonomous system is approximated by a non-linear difference system and then an approximate global Poincaré map function is derived from the difference system by iterating one or more periods of a periodic excitation. Based on the map function, unstable periodic orbits embedded in a chaotic motion can be detected and a global controller for a targeted unstable periodic orbit is designed. The global controller makes all the unstable periodic orbits vanish except a targeted periodic orbit. Furthermore, a Lyapunov's direct method is applied to confirm that the global controller can asymptotically stabilize the unique periodic orbit. For practical applications, system models are usually unknown. To obtain a mathematical model, non-linear system identification based on the harmonic balance principle is applied to an unknown chaotic system of a noisy environment. Simulation results demonstrate that the global controller successfully regularizes a chaotic motion even if the chaotic trajectory is far from the targeted periodic orbit.     

Chaotic Solutions of a Typical Nonlinear Oscillator in a Double Potential Trap

We have obtained a general unstable chaotic solution of a typical nonlinear oscillator in a double potential trap with weak periodic perturbations by using the direct perturbation method. Theoretical analysis reveals that the stable periodic orbits are embedded in the Melnikov chaotic attractors. The corresponding chaotic region and orbits in parameter space are described by numerical simulations.     

Local control of chaotic motion

On the basis of the Ott, Grebogi and Yorke method (OGY) of controlling chaotic motion by stabilizing unstable periodic orbits we propose a control method which allows a nearly continuous adjusting of the control parameter and which therefore is capable also for controlling noisy systems. Any motion which is a solution of the system's equation of motion can be stabilized, unstable periodic orbits as well as chaotic trajectories. We demonstrate the feasibility of the method by stabilizing experimentally arbitrarily chosen chaotic trajectories of a driven damped pendulum affected by noise.     

Controlling bifurcations and chaos in discrete small-world networks

We propose an impulsive hybrid control method to control the period-doubling bifurcations and stabilize unstable periodic orbits embedded in a chaotic attractor of a small-world network. Simulation results show that the bifurcations can be delayed or completely eliminated. A periodic orbit of the system can be controlled to any desired periodic orbit by using this method.     

Dynamics of chaotic driving: rotation in the restricted three-body problem

We investigate the rotation of a small nonspherical body in the planar restricted three-body problem along periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic orbits of the small body's center of mass. The rotation dynamics is chaotic in all three cases, but a systematic overview of it via stroboscopic mappings is possible only in the periodic case. We propose to explore the structured phase space patterns by following an ensemble of trajectories, a droplet, in the phase space. The temporal evolution of the pattern can be characterized by a time-dependent fractal dimension. It is shown to converge exponentially to a time-independent value for long times. In the presence of dissipation, the droplet typically converges to a so-called snapshot chaotic attractor whose shape might change chaotically in time, but whose asymptotic fractal dimension is constant.     

Noise can reduce disorder in chaotic dynamics

We evoke the idea of representation of the chaotic attractor by the set of unstable periodic orbits and disclose a novel noise-induced ordering phenomenon. For long unstable periodic orbits forming the strange attractor the weights (or natural measure) is generally highly inhomogeneous over the set, either diminishing or enhancing the contribution of these orbits into system dynamics. We show analytically and numerically a weak noise to reduce this inhomogeneity and, additionally to obvious perturbing impact, make a regularizing influence on the chaotic dynamics. This universal effect is rooted into the nature of deterministic chaos.     

振荡吸积盘的光变研究

理论研究指出随机振荡吸积盘可能引起活动天体的光变,然而观测数据分析表明光变中除了含有随机噪声外还存在混沌因素.将混沌因素引入到随机振荡吸积盘中,构成"混沌+随机"振荡吸积盘模型.通过分析扰动的相图,直观再现了混沌吸引子的状态.研究结果表明:在随机因素占主导时,光变混乱无序;随机因素与混沌因素相当时,光变上下起伏类似于心电图;混沌因素占主导时,光变具有一定有序性.模拟光变曲线的关联维与观测数据的关联维一致,表明模拟光变曲线与观测结果之间存在内在联系.     

Control of chaos via an unstable delayed feedback controller

Delayed feedback control of chaos is well known as an effective method for stabilizing unstable periodic orbits embedded in chaotic attractors. However, it had been shown that the method works only for a certain class of periodic orbits characterized by a finite torsion. Modification based on an unstable delayed feedback controller is proposed in order to overcome this topological limitation. An efficiency of the modified scheme is demonstrated for an unstable fixed point of a simple dynamic model as well as for an unstable periodic orbit of the Lorenz system.