Coexistence and persistence of strange attractors (Q1362458)

The book is devoted to the existence and persistence of any number of coexisting strange attractors in three-dimensional flows. The authors define a one-parameter family \(X_\mu\) of piecewise regular vector fields on \(\mathbb{R}^3\) and prove that for each natural number \(n\) there exists a positive Lebesgue measure set of parameter values for which \(X_\mu\) has at least \(n\) strange attractors. Moreover, \(X_\mu\) exhibits an infinite number of strange attractors for some values of the parameter. The authors apply the definition of an attractor as compact invariant set \(\Lambda\) having a dense orbit and whose stable set \(W^s (\Lambda)\) has a non-empty interior. The book contains eight chapters and numerical experiments as appendix.