A geometric method for detecting chaotic dynamics (Q678600)

A subject of large interest for scientists keen of chaotic phenomena is the detection of chaotic dynamics. Unfortunately, there are not many methods which allow to prove the existence of chaos in a rigorous mathematical way. An ingenious and accurate new geometric method for detecting chaos in dynamical systems generated by time-periodic nonautonomous differential equations is proposed and developed by the authors. Their paper contains five sections. The first of them is an introduction and a brief description of other recent methods or results. After that follows another section which consists of several basic notations and a few preliminary concepts. The main result, given by Theorem 2 from Section 4, provides a sufficient condition for the existence of chaotic dynamics inside some sets, called periodic isolating segments. This notion is introduced in Section 3 as a suitable modification of the concept of isolating block from the theory of isolated invariant sets. In the final section the authors apply their result in order to detect chaotic dynamics for the planar equation \(\dot z=[1+|z|^2\exp (i\varphi t)]\dot z\), where \(z\in\mathbb{C}\) and \(0<\varphi\leq 1/288\), and they provide concrete values of \(\varphi\) for which chaos exists.