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Can a Fractional Order Delay Differential Equation be Chaotic Whose Integer-Order Counterpart is Stable?

Dynamical Systems 2022-06-23 v1

Abstract

For the fractional order systems Dαx(t)=f(x),0<α1,D^\alpha x(t)=f(x),\quad 0<\alpha\leq 1, one can have a critical value of α\alpha viz α\alpha_* such that the system is stable for 0<α<α0<\alpha<\alpha_* and unstable for α<α1\alpha_*<\alpha\leq 1. In general, if such system is stable for some α0(0,1)\alpha_0\in(0,1) then it remains stable for all α<α0.\alpha<\alpha_0. In this paper, we show that there are some delay differential equations Dαx(t)=f(x(t),x(tτ))D^\alpha x(t)=f(x(t),x(t-\tau)) of the fractional order which behave in an exactly opposite way. These systems are unstable for higher values of fractional order and stable for the lower values. The striking observation is the example which is chaotic for α=0.27\alpha=0.27 but stable for α=1\alpha=1. This cannot be observed in the fractional differential equations (FDEs) without delay. We provide the complete bifurcation scenarios in the scalar FDEs.

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@article{arxiv.2206.10894,
  title  = {Can a Fractional Order Delay Differential Equation be Chaotic Whose Integer-Order Counterpart is Stable?},
  author = {Sachin Bhalekar and Deepa Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10894},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages, 18 figures

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