Off-Center Reflections: Caustics and Chaos

DOI10.1080/10586458.2001.10504449MaRDI QIDQ4736656zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Kwok-Keung Au, Xiao-Song Lin

Publication date 5 August 2004

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806094, https://eudml.org/doc/226773

zbMATH Keywords

circle mapsSymplectic topologyperturbed rotations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10)

Abstract: In this article, we attempt to study the possible link between the dynamics of a circle map and the caustics of its iterations. The attention is on a geometrically defined off-center reflections, which, coincidentally, is also a generalization of standard perturbation of rotation. Some results of the caustics and dynamics of the family of maps are given. The method of symplectic topology is particularly exploited to study the caustics because of its potential in further development. The mode-locking behavior and width of resonance zone are also studied. Furthermore, there are interesting problems arised from experimental observations.

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