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Main Authors: Daquin, Jerome, Kovacs, Tamas
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19042
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author Daquin, Jerome
Kovacs, Tamas
author_facet Daquin, Jerome
Kovacs, Tamas
contents The recurrence-based divergence quantifier ($DIV$), traditionally applied to dissipative systems, is shown here to be an effective finite-time chaos indicator for conservative dynamics. We benchmark its performances against the well-established fast Lyapunov indicator (FLI), focusing on the standard map, a canonical model of Hamiltonian chaos. Through extensive numerical simulations on moderately long orbits, we find strong agreement between $DIV$ and FLI, supporting the reported correlation between the divergence of recurrences and positive Lyapunov exponents. Additionally, our study sheds more light into asymptotic time properties of $DIV$ by revealing distinct power laws on regular and chaotic components, both in the original and reconstructed phase spaces. In particular, on a regular component, the space average of $DIV$ decays with the time $N$ as $1/N$, mirroring the decay rate of the maximal Lyapunov exponent. On chaotic components, the space average of $DIV$ decreases at a much slower rate, close to $1/\sqrt{N}$. This scaling insight opens new avenues for characterizing chaos from time series. Our numerical results thus demonstrate $DIV$ to be a computationally viable and theoretically rich tool for chaos detection in conservative systems.
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spellingShingle Leveraging temporal features of the divergence quantifier of recurrence plot to detect chaos in conservative systems
Daquin, Jerome
Kovacs, Tamas
Chaotic Dynamics
The recurrence-based divergence quantifier ($DIV$), traditionally applied to dissipative systems, is shown here to be an effective finite-time chaos indicator for conservative dynamics. We benchmark its performances against the well-established fast Lyapunov indicator (FLI), focusing on the standard map, a canonical model of Hamiltonian chaos. Through extensive numerical simulations on moderately long orbits, we find strong agreement between $DIV$ and FLI, supporting the reported correlation between the divergence of recurrences and positive Lyapunov exponents. Additionally, our study sheds more light into asymptotic time properties of $DIV$ by revealing distinct power laws on regular and chaotic components, both in the original and reconstructed phase spaces. In particular, on a regular component, the space average of $DIV$ decays with the time $N$ as $1/N$, mirroring the decay rate of the maximal Lyapunov exponent. On chaotic components, the space average of $DIV$ decreases at a much slower rate, close to $1/\sqrt{N}$. This scaling insight opens new avenues for characterizing chaos from time series. Our numerical results thus demonstrate $DIV$ to be a computationally viable and theoretically rich tool for chaos detection in conservative systems.
title Leveraging temporal features of the divergence quantifier of recurrence plot to detect chaos in conservative systems
topic Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19042