Full characterization of a strange attractor. Chaotic dynamics in low- dimensional replicator systems (Q2638979)

The reasoning is based on the heuristic argument that a very small set of observations obtained from a natural dynamic system contains sufficient information about the underlying mathematical dynamic system, even though the observations are of finite precision and contain noise. The authors work with mathematical dynamic systems. Low accuracy numerical computations are used as a substitute for the unavailable noisy observations. Known qualitative theory is used for the various interpretations of the deduced attractor characteristics. The main contention is that an attractor, chaotic or not, can be fully identified by means of a very straightforward numerical computation.