Around Smale's 14th problem

DOI10.1073/PNAS.2205552120MaRDI QIDQ6390053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tali Pinsky

Publication date 3 February 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2205552120

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for dynamical systems (37C29) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: We consider the Lorenz equations, a system of three dimensional ordinary differential equations modeling atmospheric convection. As the equations are chaotic and hard to study, a simpler "geometric model" has been introduced in the seventies. One of the classical problems in dynamical systems is to relate the original equations to the simplified geometric model. This has been achieved numerically by Tucker. Here we show that for a different parameter we can prove the relation to the geometric model analytically, by elementary geometric means.

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