Peano dynamics as a model for ergodic and strange nonchaotic behaviour (Q1193128): Difference between revisions

The author of this paper outlines an idea of how a two-dimensional dynamical system can have strange but non-chaotic behavior in the presence of two-frequency quasiperiodic forcing. It is known that strange, nonchaotic attractors can arise in quasiperiodic driven oscillators. These fractal attractors look topologically similar to the more familiar strange attractors, yet they arise from systems with negative Lyapunov exponents and thus are non-chaotic. The author defines a kind of Smale horseshoe dynamics which arises from contracting, stretching, and twist-folding phase space. He claims that the invariant set of this dynamical system is formed by Cantor-set-like objects and he attempts to ``make it plausible'' that these objects are related to the Peano dynamics iteration which he describes pictorially. Several other claims and conjectures are made about Peano dynamics, but no proofs are given.