Towards a theory of chaos explained as travel on Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/1/015205MaRDI QIDQ5504723zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Calogero, M. Sommacal, D. Gómez-Ullate, P. M. Santini

Publication date 22 January 2009

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4130, https://eprints.ucm.es/30839/1/gomez-ullate15preprint.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex behavior and chaotic systems of ordinary differential equations (34C28) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: This paper presents a more complete version than hitherto published of our explanation of a transition from regular to irregular motions and more generally of the nature of a certain kind of deterministic chaos. To this end we introduced a simple model analogous to a three-body problem in the plane, whose general solution is obtained via quadratures all performed in terms of elementary functions. For some values of the coupling constants the system is isochronous and explicit formulas for the period of the solutions can be given. For other values, the motions are confined but feature aperiodic (in some sense chaotic) motions. This rich phenomenology can be understood in remarkable, quantitative detail in terms of travel on a certain (circular) path on the Riemann surfaces defined by the solutions of a related model considered as functions of a complex time. This model is meant to provide a paradigmatic first step towards a somewhat novel understanding of a certain kind of chaotic phenomena.

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