Braid analysis of chaosThe (forced) periodic orbit spectrum is calculated for a chaotic time series (BZ reaction).Nicholas B. Tufillaro·Nov 12, 1994SaveLearn
Braid analysis of a bouncing ballPrunning front is calculated for a bouncing ball system and the results are compared to a braid analysis. To Appear in Physical Review E.Nicholas B. Tufillaro·Nov 12, 1994SaveLearn
Linear And Nonlinear Mechanisms Of Information PropagationThe mechanisms of information transmission are investigated in a lattice of coupled continuous maps, by analyzing the propagation of both finite and infinitesimal disturbances. Two distinct regimes…Antonio Politi, Alessandro Torcini·Nov 10, 1994SaveLearn
A generating partition for the standard mapA procedure to obtain the symbolic dynamics for conservative dynamical systems is introduced with reference to the standard map in a strongly chaotic regime. The method extends an approach previously…Freddy Christiansen, Antonio Politi, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica et al.·Nov 9, 1994SaveLearn
Semiquantum Chaos and the Large N ExpansionWe consider the dynamical system consisting of a quantum degree of freedom A interacting with N quantum oscillators described by the Lagrangian L = 1 2A2 + Σi=1N…Fred Cooper, John Dawson, Salman Habib et al.·Nov 8, 1994SaveLearn
M-furcations in coupled mapsWe study the scaling behavior of M-furcation (M\!=\!2, 3, 4,…) sequences of Mn-period (n=1,2,…) orbits in two coupled one-dimensional (1D) maps. Using a renormalization method, how…Sang-Yoon Kim·Nov 6, 1994SaveLearn
Critical behavior of period doubling in coupled area-preserving mapsWe study the critical behavior of period doublings in N symmetrically coupled area-preserving maps for many-coupled cases with N>3. It is found that the critical scaling behaviors depend on the…Sang-Yoon Kim·Nov 6, 1994SaveLearn
Long-wave models of thin film fluid dynamicsCentre manifold techniques are used to derive rationally a description of the dynamics of thin films of fluid. The derived model is based on the free-surface η(x,t) and the vertically averaged…A. J. Roberts·Nov 4, 1994SaveLearn
Bifurcations of homoclinic orbits in bimodal mapsWe discuss the bifurcation structure of homoclinic orbits in bimodal one dimensional maps. The universal structure of these bifurcations with singular bifurcation points and the web of bifurcation…Kai T. Hansen·Nov 3, 1994SaveLearn
Computation of Lie Transformations from a Power Series: Bounds and Optimum TruncationThe problem considered is the computation of an infinite product (composition) of Lie transformations generated by homogeneous polynomials of increasing order from a given convergent power series.…Ivan Gjaja·Nov 3, 1994SaveLearn
Origin of Crack Tip InstabilitiesThis paper demonstrates that rapid fracture of ideal brittle lattices naturally involves phenomena long seen in experiment, but which have been hard to understand from a continuum point of view.…Michael Marder, Steve Gross·Nov 2, 1994SaveLearn
Topics in chaotic dynamicsVarious kinematical quantities associated with the statistical properties of dynamical systems are examined: statistics of the motion, dynamical bases and Lyapunov exponents. Markov partitons for…G. Gallavotti·Oct 30, 1994SaveLearn
Dynamical Ensembles in Nonequilibrium Statistical MechanicsRuelle's principle for turbulence leading to what is usually called the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen distribution (SRB) is applied to the statistical mechanics of many particle systems in nonequilibrium…G. Gallavotti, E. G. D. Cohen·Oct 30, 1994SaveLearn
The Breakdown of Dynamic Scaling and Intermittency in a Cascade Model of TurbulenceWe present an analytic and numerical analysis of the Gledzer-Ohkitani-Yamada (GOY) cascade model for turbulence. We concentrate on the dynamic correlations, and demonstrate both numerically and…Omri Gat, Itamar Procaccia, Reuven Zeitak·Oct 25, 1994SaveLearn
Passive Scalars and Three-Dimensional Liouvillian MapsGlobal aspects of the motion of passive scalars in time-dependent incompressible fluid flows are well described by volume-preserving (Liouvillian) three-dimensional maps. In this paper the possible…Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Mario Feingold, Oreste Piro·Oct 21, 1994SaveLearn
Kinks Dynamics in One-Dimensional Coupled Map LatticesWe examine the problem of the dynamics of interfaces in a one-dimensional space-time discrete dynamical system. Two different regimes are studied : the non-propagating and the propagating one. In the…B. Fernandez·Oct 20, 1994SaveLearn
Anomalous Scaling and Fusion Rules in Hydrodynamic TurbulenceIt is shown that statistical properties of developed hydrodynamic turbulence are characterized by an infinite set of independent anomalous exponents which describes the scaling behavior of…Vladimir V. Lebedev, Victor S. L'vov·Oct 20, 1994SaveLearn
"Intermittency" in Hydrodynamic Turbulence as Intermediate Asymptotic to Kolmogorov41 ScalingA synopsis of an analytical theory of scaling in developed turbulence is proposed on the basis of the Navier-Stokes equations. It is shown that corrections to the normal Kolmogorov 1941 scaling…V. S L'vov, I. Procaccia·Oct 20, 1994SaveLearn
Dynamics of Small Autocatalytic Reaction Network II: Replication, Mutation and CatalysisMutation is introduced into autocatalytic reaction networks. Examples of low dimensional dynamical systems --- n = 2, 3 and 4 --- are discussed and complete qualitative analysis is presented. Error…Peter F. Stadler, Wolfgang Schnabl, Christian V. Forst et al.·Oct 14, 1994SaveLearn
Amplitude Equations for Electrostatic Waves: universal singular behavior in the limit of weak instabilityAn amplitude equation for an unstable mode in a collisionless plasma is derived from the dynamics on the unstable manifold of the equilibrium F0(v).\\ The mode eigenvalue arises from a simple zero…John David Crawford·Oct 5, 1994SaveLearn
Avalanches in the Weakly Driven Frenkel-Kontorova ModelA damped chain of particles with harmonic nearest-neighbor interactions in a spatially periodic, piecewise harmonic potential (Frenkel-Kontorova model) is studied numerically. One end of the chain is…Franz-Josef Elmer·Sep 29, 1994SaveLearn
A New Type of Irregular Motion in a Class of Game Dynamics SystemsA new type of asymptotic behavior in a game dynamics system is discovered. The system exhibits behavior which combines chaotic motion and attraction to heteroclinic cycles; the trajectory visits…Tsuyoshi Chawanya·Sep 17, 1994SaveLearn
Statistical Properties of the Zeros of Zeta Functions - Beyond the Riemann CaseWe investigate the statistical distribution of the zeros of Dirichlet L--functions both analytically and numerically. Using the Hardy--Littlewood conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers…E. Bogomolny, P. Leboeuf·Sep 16, 1994SaveLearn
Gaussian Wavepacket Dynamics: semiquantal and semiclassical phase space formalismGaussian wavepackets are a popular tool for semiclassical analyses of classically chaotic systems. We demonstrate that they are extremely powerful in the semiquantal analysis of such systems, too,…Arjendu K. Pattanayak, William C. Schieve·Sep 14, 1994SaveLearn
The Bianchi Ix (MIXMASTER) Cosmological Model is Not IntegrableThe perturbation of an exact solution exhibits a movable transcendental essential singularity, thus proving the nonintegrability. Then, all possible exact particular solutions which may be written in…A. Latifi, M. Musette, R. Conte·Sep 13, 1994SaveLearn