TOWARD A THEORY OF CHAOS

DOI10.1142/S021812740300851XMaRDI QIDQ4655525zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 8 March 2005

Published in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0408044

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Chaos complexity graphical convergence ill-posed problems multifunctions topology

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Ill-posed problems for PDEs (35R25) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Approximation methods and numerical treatment of dynamical systems (37M99) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99) Inverse problems in optimal control (49N45) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for integral equations (65R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for integral equations (65R32) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

Abstract: This paper formulates a new approach to the study of chaos in discrete dynamical systems based on the notions of inverse ill-posed problems, set-valued mappings, generalized and multivalued inverses, graphical convergence of a net of functions in an extended multifunction space, and the topological theory of convergence. Order, chaos, and complexity are described as distinct components of this unified mathematical structure that can be viewed as an application of the theory of convergence in topological spaces to increasingly nonlinear mappings, with the boundary between order and complexity in the topology of graphical convergence being the region in Multi(X) that is susceptible to chaos. The paper uses results from the discretized spectral approximation in neutron transport theory and concludes that the numerically exact results obtained by this approximation of the Case singular eigenfunction solution is due to the graphical convergence of the Poisson and conjugate Poisson kernels to the Dirac delta and the principal value multifunctions respectively. In Multi(X), the continuous spectrum is shown to reduce to a point spectrum, and we introduce a notion of latent chaotic states to interpret superposition over generalized eigenfunctions. Along with these latent states, spectral theory of nonlinear operators is used to conclude that nature supports complexity to attain efficiently a multiplicity of states that otherwise would remain unavailable to it.

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