Qualitative analysis of the Rössler equations: bifurcations of limit cycles and chaotic attractors (Q2389361)

The authors study the following Rössler system focusing their attention on the local and global bifurcations of limit cycles. \(\dot{x} = -(y+z),\) \(\dot{y} = x + ay,\) \(\dot{z} = b + z(x-c),\) \noindent where \(a, b, c \in {\mathbb R}\). The local bifurcation are analyzed on the three parametric space \((a, b, c)\), and also, for the different kinds of chaotic attractors found by the authors themselves, the authors briefly study some of their properties, as the topological templates, the first-return-map and their location on the parametric phase space. On this task, OFLI2 [\textit{R. Barrio}, Chaos Solitons Fractals 25, No. 3, 711--726 (2005; Zbl 1092.37531)] and MLE [\textit{J. Argyris, G. Faust} and \textit{M. Haase}, An exploration of chaos. An introduction for natural scientists and engineers. Texts on Computational Mechanics 7, (Amsterdam): North-Holland (1994; Zbl 0805.58001)] are used, and so the authors present detailed brute-force diagrams that estimate the regions where there exists a chaotic attractor. Finally, the authors study some global bifurcations on the plane \((a, c)\), as homoclinic bifurcations of codimension 1 and 2, that create infinite series of codimension 1 bifurcation curves of limit cycles.