An analysis of chaos via contact transformation (Q1432967)

The author analyzes the convection loop model and the single mode laser system from a slightly different point of view. The author adopts the framework of differential geometry and adopts the contact transformation to simplify the analysis. Moreover, the author applies the contact transformation to the Lorenz equation and its extension, and analyzes the transition from chaos to quasi-periodic phases in the convection loop and in the single mode laser. The branching of eigenvalues of the Jacobian after contact transformation allows one to visualize the transition from orbit near one fixed point to the other one.