Higher correlation functions of chaotic dynamical systems-a graph theoretical approach (Q3985873)

The systematic method for calculating correlation functions of arbitrary order for certain dissipative dynamical systems conjugated to the Bernoulli shift is developed. The main example is the map \(Tx=2x^ 2-1\). It is shown that the topological structure of higher-order correlations can be described by forests of incomplete double binary trees. These forests characterize the space of tuples \((u_ 1,\dots,u_ r)\) for which the \(r\)-point correlation function of the map \(T\) does not vanish. The discussion is then generalized to higher-dimensional extensions of the map \(T\) of the following form \[ x_{n+1}=Tx_ n,\quad y_{n+1}=\lambda y_ n+\tau^{1/2}x_{n+1},\quad z_{n+1}=z_ n+ky_ n \tag{1} \] where \(\varepsilon,\gamma,\lambda=e^{-\gamma\tau}\) and \(k=(1-\lambda)/\gamma\) are positive constants. Decreasing \(\tau\) the system exhibits a transition from non-Gaussian chaotic to Gaussian stochastic behaviour provided \(T\) has the so-called mixing property. The analysis of this transition from chaotic to Gaussian stochastic behaviour in terms of \(r\)-point correlation functions is described. For this purpose a kind of perturbation theory similar to Feynman's approach in quantum field theory is introduced. The ``coupling constant'' is the square root of the parameter \(\tau\). The free field \((\tau=0)\) corresponds to a Gaussian random dynamics, just as in Euclidean field the chaotic process is generated for \(\tau > 0\). The results have a direct physical interpretation: the dynamical system considered describe the movement of a particle in a viscous medium under the influence of a chaotic kick force. Also complex generalizations of the map (1) are considered. Such systems describe the movement of a damped charged particle in a chaotic electric and constant magnetic field. Again higher correlation functions can be calculated with the help of double binary forests of graph theory.