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Physics Letters A

Volume 290, Issues 3–4, 12 November 2001, Pages 139-144
Physics Letters A

Chaos–hyperchaos transition in coupled Rössler systems

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Abstract

Many of the nonlinear high-dimensional systems have hyperchaotic attractors. Typical trajectory on such attractors is characterized by at least two positive Lyapunov exponents. We provide numerical evidence that chaos–hyperchaos transition in six-dimensional dynamical system given by flow can be characterized by the set of infinite number of unstable periodic orbits embedded in the attractor as it was previously shown for the case of two coupled discrete maps.

Introduction

Unstable periodic orbits (UPO's) constitute the most fundamental blocks of a chaotic system [1]. Theoretically, the infinite number of UPO's embedded in a chaotic set provides the skeleton of the attractor and allows the estimation of many dynamical invariants such as the natural measure, the spectra of Lyapunov exponents, the fractal dimension in the fundamental way [2]. Recently, UPO's have been used in the description of higher-dimensional dynamical phenomena such as blowout bifurcation [3] and chaos–hyperchaos transition (i.e., transition from the attractor characterized by one positive Lyapunov exponent to the attractor characterized by at least two positive exponents) [4]. It has been shown that chaos–hyperchaos transition as well as blowout bifurcation is mediated by an infinite number of UPO's which become repellers in the neighborhood of the transition point. The simultaneous existence of UPO's with different number of unstable direction gives rise to the nonhyperbolicity known as unstable dimension variability and provides a possible dynamic mechanism for the smooth transition through zero of second Lyapunov exponent.

Up to now, the description of chaos–hyperchaos transition using UPO's has been performed only for the case of coupled discrete maps. In this Letter, we argue and provide numerical evidence that this description can be applied to the continuous dynamical systems (flows). We show that the balance of the appropriate weights of UPO's orbits with one unstable dimension and UPO's with at least two unstable dimension gives the approximation of chaos–hyperchaos transition point.

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The model

As an example consider two identical symmetrically coupled Rössler systems ẋ1=−x2−x3,ẋ2=x1+ax2,ẋ3=b+x3(x1−c)+d(y3−x3), ẏ1=−y2−y3,ẏ2=y1+ay2,ẏ3=b+y3(y1−c)+d(y3−x3), where (x1,x2,x3,y1,y2,y3)∈R6 are dynamical variables, a,b,c are system parameters and d is the coefficient of coupling. It is well known that the Rössler system develops continuous chaos through period-doubling bifurcation cascade [6]. Since the Rössler system has a foundation in the kinematics of chemical reaction [7], it is

Stability of low-periodic orbits embedded into the attractor

In the following, we try to investigate stability of low-periodic orbits embedded into the attractor of system (1) when it undergoes chaos–hyperchaos transition. In order to find and classify these orbits we use the Poincaré cross-section that is determined by the following normal vector n=(−3.75,1.84,−6.48,1.75,−2.09,−0.10) and a base point with coordinates P=(1.72,0.35,3.40,−1.27,−2.29,0.53). Vector n was chosen along flow (1) at point P. Fig. 3 shows the image of the chaotic attractor in

Conclusions

We have shown here that the transition from chaos to hyperchaos in higher-dimensional dynamical system given by a flow is a bifurcation that like in the case of the coupled maps, is mediated by an infinite number of unstable periodic orbits. In the neighborhood of the transition point one observes the co-existence of UPO's with one (saddles which are typical for 3-dimensional chaotic systems) and at least two unstable eigenvalues. This co-existence is responsible for the occurrence of

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