Bicritical Behavior of Period Doublings in Unidirectionally-Coupled Maps

Abstract

We study the scaling behavior of period doublings in two unidirectionally-coupled one-dimensional maps near a bicritical point where two critical lines of period-doubling transition to chaos in both subsystems meet. Note that the bicritical point corresponds to a border of chaos in both subsystems. For this bicritical case, the second response subsystem exhibits a new type of non-Feigenbaum critical behavior, while the first drive subsystem is in the Feigenbaum critical state. Using two different methods, we make the renormalization group analysis of the bicritical behavior and find the corresponding fixed point of the renormalization transformation with two relevant eigenvalues. The scaling factors obtained by the renormalization group analysis agree well with those obtained by a direct numerical method.