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Main Authors: Bick, Christian, Lohse, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11383
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author Bick, Christian
Lohse, Alexander
author_facet Bick, Christian
Lohse, Alexander
contents Homoclinic and heteroclinic connections can form cycles and networks in phase space, which organize global phenomena in dynamical systems. On the one hand, stability notions for (omni)cycles give insight into how many initial conditions approach the network along a single given (omni)cycle. On the other hand, the term switching is used to describe situations where there are trajectories that follow any possible sequence of heteroclinic connections along the network. Here we give a notion of asymptotic stability for general sequences along a network of homoclinic and heteroclinic connections. We show that there cannot be uncountably many aperiodic sequences that attract a set with nontrivial measure. Finally, we discuss examples where one may or may not expect aperiodic convergence towards a network and conclude with some open questions.
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spellingShingle How many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way?
Bick, Christian
Lohse, Alexander
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
Homoclinic and heteroclinic connections can form cycles and networks in phase space, which organize global phenomena in dynamical systems. On the one hand, stability notions for (omni)cycles give insight into how many initial conditions approach the network along a single given (omni)cycle. On the other hand, the term switching is used to describe situations where there are trajectories that follow any possible sequence of heteroclinic connections along the network. Here we give a notion of asymptotic stability for general sequences along a network of homoclinic and heteroclinic connections. We show that there cannot be uncountably many aperiodic sequences that attract a set with nontrivial measure. Finally, we discuss examples where one may or may not expect aperiodic convergence towards a network and conclude with some open questions.
title How many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way?
topic Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11383