Introduction to special issue: Chaos Indicators, Phase Space and Chemical Reaction Dynamics

Abstract

The study of the phase space of multidimensional systems is one of the central open problems in dynamical systems. Being able to distinguish chaoticity from regularity in nonlinear dynamical systems, as well as to determine the subspace of the phase space in which instabilities are expected to occur, is also an important field. To investigate these, diverse chaos indicators have been developed. The information provided from these indicators is important to understand the dynamical behavior of many systems in celestial mechanics and, more recently, in chemical reaction dynamics. This special issue contains new results around the topics: phase space structure, chaos indicators, and chemical reaction dynamics.