Route to chaotic synchronisation in coupled map lattices: rigorous results (Q1431451)

Coupled map lattices (CML) are discrete models for the nonlinear dynamics of some extended sytems. One of the main question in the theory of CML is to describe the dynamics when the coupling increases from zero. In this paper, two-dimensional mappings obtained by coupling two piecewise increasing expanding maps are considered. The authors obtain an explicit expression of the admissibility condition of symbolic sequences and prove that the symbolic system is conjugated to the CML on its repeller. Moreover, they establish a partial ordering on symbolic sequences compatible with the ordering of the coordinates of their images. As a consequence, the topological entropy is located between two decreasing step functions of the coupling parameter.