Devil-staircase behavior of dynamical invariants in chaotic scattering (Q1583818)

The paper deals with a family of dynamical system depending on one parameter such that the initial system has two nonattracting chaotic hyperbolic invariant sets. Under evolution of the parameter the system comes to a crisis when there is an interaction between two isolated chaotic sets. The crisis begins as the stable (unstable) manifold of one chaotic set becomes tangent to the stable (unstable) manifold of an other chaotic set. The end of the crisis corresponds to the parameter value when these foliations have only transversal intersections. A rigorous analysis of the behavior of dynamical invariants such as the topological entropy and the fractal dimension are described in the crisis. A one-dimensional piecewise linear mapping is considered as a universal model of the crisis. The principal results of the paper are analytical and numerical confirmations for the behavior of dynamical invariants in crisis of chaotic scattering. The authors use the concept of integration over a fractal measure and the transition matrix method to obtain the desired results.