Showing papers by "Jean-Pierre Eckmann published in 1987"

Recurrence Plots of Dynamical Systems

Abstract: A new graphical tool for measuring the time constancy of dynamical systems is presented and illustrated with typical examples.

Exploring chaotic motion through periodic orbits.

Abstract: The fractal invariant measure of chaotic strange attractors can be approximated systematically by the set of unstable n-periodic orbits of increasing n. Algorithms for extracting the periodic orbits from a chaotic time series and for calculating their stabilities are presented. With this information alone, important properties like the topological entropy and the Hausdorff dimension can be calculated.

A complete proof of the Feigenbaum conjectures

Abstract: The Feigenbaum phenomenon is studied by analyzing an extended renormalization group map ℳ. This map acts on functionsΦ that are jointly analytic in a “position variable” (t) and in the parameter (μ) that controls the period doubling phenomenon. A fixed pointΦ * for this map is found. The usual renormalization group doubling operatorN acts on this functionΦ * simply by multiplication ofμ with the universal Feigenbaum ratioδ *= 4.669201..., i.e., (N Φ *(μ,t)=Φ *(δ * μ,t). Therefore, the one-parameter family of functions,Ψ * ,Ψ * (t)=(Φ *(μ,t), is invariant underN. In particular, the functionΨ 0 * is the Feigenbaum fixed point ofN, whileΨ * represents the unstable manifold ofN. It is proven that this unstable manifold crosses the manifold of functions with superstable period two transversally.