Unstable attractors: existence and robustness in networks of oscillators with delayed pulse coupling

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/18/5/009zbMATH Open1084.37061arXivcond-mat/0501384OpenAlexW2156760705WikidataQ61951264 ScholiaQ61951264MaRDI QIDQ5704342FDOQ5704342

Authors: Marc Timme, Peter Ashwin 

Publication date: 14 November 2005

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider unstable attractors; Milnor attractors $A$ such that, for some neighbourhood $U$ of $A$, almost all initial conditions leave $U$. Previous research strongly suggests that unstable attractors exist and even occur robustly (i.e. for open sets of parameter values) in a system modelling biological phenomena, namely in globally coupled oscillators with delayed pulse interactions. In the first part of this paper we give a rigorous definition of unstable attractors for general dynamical systems. We classify unstable attractors into two types, depending on whether or not there is a neighbourhood of the attractor that intersects the basin in a set of positive measure. We give examples of both types of unstable attractor; these examples have non-invertible dynamics that collapse certain open sets onto stable manifolds of saddle orbits. In the second part we give the first rigorous demonstration of existence and robust occurrence of unstable attractors in a network of oscillators with delayed pulse coupling. Although such systems are technically hybrid systems of delay differential equations with discontinuous `firing' events, we show that their dynamics reduces to a finite dimensional hybrid system system after a finite time and hence we can discuss Milnor attractors for this reduced finite dimensional system. We prove that for an open set of phase resetting functions there are saddle periodic orbits that are unstable attractors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501384

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Attractors and their dimensions, Lyapunov exponents for infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (37L30) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44)

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