Invisible parts of attractors

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/23/5/010zbMath1204.37017arXiv0901.0316OpenAlexW3101328105MaRDI QIDQ3565017

Andrei Neguţ, Yulij S. Ilyashenko

Publication date: 27 May 2010

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper deals with the attractors of generic dynamical systems. We introduce the notion of epsilon-invisible set, which is an open set in which almost all orbits spend on average a fraction of time no greater than epsilon. For extraordinarily small values of epsilon (say, smaller than 2^{-100}), these are areas of the phase space which an observer virtually never sees when following a generic orbit. We construct an open set in the space of all dynamical systems which have an epsilon-invisible set that includes parts of attractors of size comparable to the entire attractor of the system, for extraordinarily small values of epsilon. The open set consists of C^1 perturbations of a particular skew product over the Smale-Williams solenoid. Thus for all such perturbations, a sizable portion of the attractor is almost never visited by generic orbits and practically never seen by the observer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0316

zbMATH Keywords

classificationattractorsstructural stabilityisomorphismgeneric propertiessmooth mappings and diffeomorphismscomputation of Lyapunov exponentsperiodic orbits of vector fields and flowscomputational methods for ergodic theory (approximation of invariant measuresentropy and other invariantsentropy)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Generic properties, structural stability of dynamical systems (37C20) Computational methods for ergodic theory (approximation of invariant measures, computation of Lyapunov exponents, entropy, etc.) (37M25) Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05)

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