High-dimensional chaotic and attractor systems. A comprehensive introduction (Q859488)

The monograph under review is devoted to understanding, prediction and control high-dimensional chaotic and attractor systems. The first chapter presents an introduction into low-dimensional attractors and chaos. Chapter 2 gives a review of current development of the Smale horseshoe techniques of topological stretching, folding and squeezing of the phase space of the chaotic system with the relevant symbolic dynamics. It consists of the sections: Smale horseshoe orbits and symbolic dynamics (horseshoe trellis, trellis-forced dynamics, homoclinic braid type), Homoclinic classes for generic vector fields, Complex-valued Hénon maps and horseshoes, Chaos in functional delayed equations. Chapter 3 explains fundamental mechanical sources of chaos (in particular, Poincaré's 3-body problem) and basic techniques for chaos control, mostly of Ott-Grelogi-Yorke type. Chapter 4 is devoted to dynamical sources of chaos and the means of chaos control. It deals explicitly with a high-dimensional chaos in terms of phase transition (both classical Landau's and modern topological) and a high-dimensional control in terms of Haken's synergetics. Here the authors give classification of phase transitions, elements of Haken's synergetics with applications to synergetics of recurrent and attractor neural networks. In conclusion phase transitions in Hamiltonian systems are considered with applications to self-organization in human biodynamics. Chapter 5 deals with phase synchronization in high-dimensional chaotic systems. Phase synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators and oscillatory phase dynamics, in particular, Kuramoto synchronization model, are considered. Chapter 6 presents high-tech Josephson junctions as the basic components for the future quantum computers. Here dissipative Josephson junctions and synchronization in arrays of Josephson junctions are considered. Chapter 7 is devoted to fractals and high-dimensional fractal dynamics, in particular, to fractional Hamiltonian dynamics, and to modern nonchaotic strange attractors. Basic sections are: Robust strange nonchaotic attractors; Effective dynamics in Hamiltonian systems; Formation of fractal structure in many-body system; Functional calculus and chaos control; Fractional gradient and Hamiltonian dynamics. Beginning with the simple Lorentz system in Chapter 8 the comprehensive theory of turbulent flows is developed. Here the following sections are presented: Parameter-space analysis of the Lorentz attractor (attractors and bifurcations); Periodically-driven Lorentz dynamics; Lorentzian diffusion; Turbulence in particular spatio-temporal chaos and turbulence in PDEs with examples of Sine-Gordon, Complex Ginzburg-Landau equations, Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and Burgers dynamical systems; Turbulence kinetics; Lie symmetries in the model of turbulence; Advection of vector field by chaotic flows; Brownian motion and diffusion. The last Chapter 9 contains some remaining chaos-related techniques, not reflected in previous chapters, from modern high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics: chaos geometry, gauges, solutions, together with the chaos field theory.