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Manifold angles, the concept of self-similarity, and angle-enhanced bifurcation diagrams

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Beims,  Marcus W.
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Gallas,  Jason A. C.
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Beims, M. W., & Gallas, J. A. C. (2016). Manifold angles, the concept of self-similarity, and angle-enhanced bifurcation diagrams. Scientific Reports, 6: 18859. doi:10.1038/srep18859.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-A854-A
Abstract
Chaos and regularity are routinely discriminated by using Lyapunov exponents distilled from the norm of orthogonalized Lyapunov vectors, propagated during the temporal evolution of the dynamics. Such exponents are mean-field-like averages that, for each degree of freedom, squeeze the whole temporal evolution complexity into just a single number.
However, Lyapunov vectors also contain a step-by-step record of what exactly happens with the angles between stable and unstable manifolds during the whole evolution, a big-data information permanently erased by repeated orthogonalizations. Here, we study changes of angles between invariant subspaces as observed during temporal evolution of Henon's system. Such angles are calculated numerically and analytically and used to characterize self-similarity of a chaotic attractor. In addition, we show how standard tools of dynamical systems may be angle-enhanced by dressing them with informations not difficult to extract. Such angle-enhanced tools reveal unexpected and practical facts that are described in detail. For instance, we present a video showing an angle-enhanced bifurcation diagram that exposes from several perspectives the complex geometrical features underlying the attractors. We believe such findings to be generic for extended classes of systems.