Exotic attractors : from Liapunov stability to riddled basins /

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Author / Creator:Buescu, Jorge, 1964-
Imprint:Basel ; Boston : Birkhàˆuser Verlag, c1997.
Description:xiii, 130 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Progress in mathematics ; v. 153
Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ; vol. 153.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3612803
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ISBN:3764357932 (Basel : alk. paper)
0817657932 (Boston : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Attractors in Dynamical Systems. Basic definitions. Topological and dynamical consequences. Attractors. Examples and counterexamples
  • 2. Liapunov Stability and Adding Machines. Adding Machines and Denjoy maps. Stable Cantor sets are Adding Machines. Adding Machines and periodic points: interval maps. Interlude: Adding Machines as inverse limits. Stable [omega]-limit sets are Adding Machines. Classification of Adding Machines. Existence of Stable Adding Machines
  • 3. From Attractor to Chaotic Saddle: a journey through transverse instability. Normal Liapunov exponents and stability indices. Normal parameters and normal stability. Example: Z[subscript]2-symmetric maps on R[superscript]2. Example: synchronization of coupled systems.