A shooting approach to chaos in the Lorenz equations (Q1913660)

The authors prove that under certain conditions on sign changes for one variable \(x\) and its derivative \(x'\) the Lorenz equations support a form of chaos. The conditions have been verified numerically in a different paper using interval arithmetic for a particular set of parameter values. After choosing a proper line segment it is shown that for any sequence \(S = \{\sigma_j\}\) of natural numbers one can construct initial conditions on this segment, such that the number of sign changes of \(x'\) between consecutive zeros of \(x\) is in one-to-one correspondence with \(\sigma_j\).