Information entropy. An indicator of chaos (Q1363492)

Some of the scientists interested in chaotic phenomena recently revisited their research to the characterization of systems behavior via entropic formulation, but the authors of the present paper are the first to succeed in developing the concept of information entropy in order to obtain an appropriate indicator of chaos. Rigorously and accurate, their paper is divided into two parts. The first of them contains the development of the mathematical formalism of information entropy and the second one consists of its application to the 2D Hénon-Heiles system and to the 3D Contopoulos, Galgani and Giorgilli potential. In conclusion, the authors succeed to offer a nice indicator of chaos, easy to compute, independent of the number of the degrees of freedom of the system, and which eliminates the long-term integration in order to obtain its asymptotic values.