Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems: The Role of Stability Preserving Mappings

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-199
Author(s):  
A.N. Michel ◽  
Kaining Wang
Author(s):  
Margaret Morrison

After reviewing some of the recent literature on non-causal and mathematical explanation, this chapter develops an argument as to why renormalization group (RG) methods should be seen as providing non-causal, yet physical, information about certain kinds of systems/phenomena. The argument centres on the structural character of RG explanations and the relationship between RG and probability theory. These features are crucial for the claim that the non-causal status of RG explanations involves something different from simply ignoring or “averaging over” microphysical details—the kind of explanations common to statistical mechanics. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of RG in treating dynamical systems and how that role exemplifies the structural aspects of RG explanations which in turn exemplifies the non-causal features.


Author(s):  
Filipe I. Fazanaro ◽  
Diogo C. Soriano ◽  
Ricardo Suyama ◽  
Marconi K. Madrid ◽  
José Raimundo de Oliveira ◽  
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Author(s):  
Mario di Bernardo ◽  
Alan R. Champneys ◽  
Christopher J. Budd ◽  
Piotr Kowalczyk

Author(s):  
Martin Biehl ◽  
Takashi Ikegami ◽  
Daniel Polani

We present a first formal analysis of specific and complete local integration. Complete local integration was previously proposed as a criterion for detecting entities or wholes in distributed dynamical systems. Such entities in turn were conceived to form the basis of a theory of emergence of agents within dynamical systems. Here, we give a more thorough account of the underlying formal measures. The main contribution is the disintegration theorem which reveals a special role of completely locally integrated patterns (what we call ι-entities) within the trajectories they occur in. Apart from proving this theorem we introduce the disintegration hierarchy and its refinement-free version as a way to structure the patterns in a trajectory. Furthermore we construct the least upper bound and provide a candidate for the greatest lower bound of specific local integration. Finally, we calculate the i-entities in small example systems as a first sanity check and find that ι-entities largely fulfil simple expectations.


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