Basin Structure in the Two-Dimensional Dissipative Circle Map (Q4469768)

The paper consists of several numerical experiments with the following two-dimensional circle map \[ \vartheta_{n+1}= \vartheta_n+ \Omega- {K\over 2\pi}\sin(2\pi\vartheta_n)+ br_n\;\bmod 1,\quad r_{n+1}= br_n- {K\over 2\pi} \sin(2\pi\vartheta_n), \] where \(\Omega\), \(K\), \(b\) are parameters. For example, the system with \(\Omega= 0.03138\), \(K= 6\), \(b= 0.1\) has two co-existing periodic attractors, namely, the period two and period four attractors. The authors show the basin structure of the period four attractor by plotting dots at the points within the basin out of \(2000\times 2000\) grid points in the phase space, i.e., for each grid points, the orbits are examined and if the orbit ends up in the period four attractor, a dot is plotted at the point where we started, but if the orbit ends up in the period two attractor, the point is left blank. By examining a neighboring region of each point, the distribution of the band width of the basin is investigated.