scholarly journals On well-posed problems for connecting orbits in dynamical systems

Author(s):  
W.-J. Beyn
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 2556-2596 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL DOBBS ◽  
MIKKO STENLUND

We introduce the notion of a quasistatic dynamical system, which generalizes that of an ordinary dynamical system. Quasistatic dynamical systems are inspired by the namesake processes in thermodynamics, which are idealized processes where the observed system transforms (infinitesimally) slowly due to external influence, tracing out a continuous path of thermodynamic equilibria over an (infinitely) long time span. Time evolution of states under a quasistatic dynamical system is entirely deterministic, but choosing the initial state randomly renders the process a stochastic one. In the prototypical setting where the time evolution is specified by strongly chaotic maps on the circle, we obtain a description of the statistical behavior as a stochastic diffusion process, under surprisingly mild conditions on the initial distribution, by solving a well-posed martingale problem. We also consider various admissible ways of centering the process, with the curious conclusion that the ‘obvious’ centering suggested by the initial distribution sometimes fails to yield the expected diffusion.


2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 3451-3496 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. AVRUTIN ◽  
P. LEVI ◽  
M. SCHANZ ◽  
D. FUNDINGER ◽  
G. OSIPENKO

Symbolic images represent a unified framework to apply several methods for the investigation of dynamical systems both discrete and continuous in time. By transforming the system flow into a graph, they allow it to formulate investigation methods as graph algorithms. Several kinds of stable and unstable return trajectories can be localized on this graph as well as attractors, their basins and connecting orbits. Extensions of the framework allow, e.g. the calculation of the Morse spectrum and verification of hyperbolicity. In this work, efficient algorithms and adequate data structures will be presented for the construction of symbolic images and some basic operations on them, like the localization of the chain recurrent set and periodic orbits. The performance of these algorithms will be analyzed and we show their application in practice. The focus is not only put on several standard systems, like Lorenz and Ikeda, but also on some less well-known ones. Additionally, some tuning techniques are presented for an efficient usage of the method.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juho Leppänen

Abstract This paper is about statistical properties of quasistatic dynamical systems. These are a class of non-stationary systems that model situations where the dynamics change very slowly over time due to external influences. We focus on the case where the time-evolution is described by intermittent interval maps (Pomeau-Manneville maps) with time-dependent parameters. In a suitable range of parameters, we obtain a description of the statistical properties as a stochastic diffusion, by solving a well-posed martingale problem. The results extend those of a related recent study due to Dobbs and Stenlund, which concerned the case of quasistatic (uniformly) expanding systems.


2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 3385-3407 ◽  
Author(s):  
WOLF-JÜRGEN BEYN ◽  
THORSTEN HÜLS ◽  
YONGKUI ZOU

This paper contains a survey of numerical methods for connecting orbits in discrete dynamical systems. Special emphasis is put on degenerate cases where either the orbit loses transversality or one of its endpoints loses hyperbolicity. Numerical methods that approximate the connecting orbits by finite orbit sequences are described in detail and theoretical results on the error analysis are provided. For most of the degenerate cases we present examples and numerical results that illustrate the applicability of the methods and the validity of the error estimates.


1996 ◽  
Vol 06 (07) ◽  
pp. 1281-1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
FENGSHAN BAI ◽  
GABRIEL J. LORD ◽  
ALASTAIR SPENCE

The aim of this paper is to present a numerical technique for the computation of connections between periodic orbits in nonautonomous and autonomous systems of ordinary differential equations. First, the existence and computation of connecting orbits between fixed points in discrete dynamical systems is discussed; then it is shown that the problem of finding connections between equilibria and periodic solutions in continuous systems may be reduced to finding connections between fixed points in a discrete system. Implementation of the method is considered: the choice of a linear solver is discussed and phase conditions are suggested for the discrete system. The paper concludes with some numerical examples: connections for equilibria and periodic orbits are computed for discrete systems and for nonautonomous and autonomous systems, including systems arising from the discretization of a partial differential equation.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1191
Author(s):  
Colin Shea-Blymyer ◽  
Subhradeep Roy ◽  
Benjamin Jantzen

Many problems in the study of dynamical systems—including identification of effective order, detection of nonlinearity or chaos, and change detection—can be reframed in terms of assessing the similarity between dynamical systems or between a given dynamical system and a reference. We introduce a general metric of dynamical similarity that is well posed for both stochastic and deterministic systems and is informative of the aforementioned dynamical features even when only partial information about the system is available. We describe methods for estimating this metric in a range of scenarios that differ in respect to contol over the systems under study, the deterministic or stochastic nature of the underlying dynamics, and whether or not a fully informative set of variables is available. Through numerical simulation, we demonstrate the sensitivity of the proposed metric to a range of dynamical properties, its utility in mapping the dynamical properties of parameter space for a given model, and its power for detecting structural changes through time series data.


Author(s):  
Rafal Goebel ◽  
Ricardo G. Sanfelice ◽  
Andrew R. Teel

This chapter defines nominally well-posed hybrid systems and well-posed hybrid systems to be those hybrid systems, vaguely speaking, for which graphical limits of graphically convergent sequences of solutions, with no perturbations and with vanishing perturbations, respectively, are still solutions. In a classical setting, a well-posed problem is often defined as one in which a solution exists, is unique, and depends continuously on parameters. For hybrid dynamical systems, insisting on uniqueness of solutions and on their continuous dependence on initial conditions is very restrictive and, as it turns out, not necessary to develop a reasonable stability theory. In fact, stability theory results are possible for a quite general class of hybrid systems. The class of well-posed hybrid systems includes the Krasovskii regularization of a general hybrid system and, more generally, it includes every hybrid system meeting some mild regularity assumptions on the data.


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