Fractal dimension of higher-dimensional chaotic repellors (Q1972883)

This paper mainly deals with the study of the fractal dimension of nonattracting chaotic sets and their stable and unstable manifolds. The authors present two examples, one a noninvertible, two-dimensional map with two expanding (positive) Lyapunov exponents, and the other, a chaotic scattering billiard in three spatial dimensions. The last one yields a new structure for its invariant manifold. This system (scattering billiard in 3D) also provides an example of a system which is not typical and illustrates how perturbation of the system restores applicability of the dimension formulae.