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Chaos and Noise in a Truncated Toda Potential

chao-dyn 2016-04-06 v2 Astrophysics Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

Results are reported from a numerical investigation of orbits in a truncated Toda potential which is perturbed by weak friction and noise. Two significant conclusions are shown to emerge: (1) Despite other nontrivial behaviour, configuration, velocity, and energy space moments associated with these perturbations exhibit a simple scaling in the amplitude of the friction and noise. (2) Even very weak friction and noise can induce an extrinsic diffusion through cantori on a time scale much shorter than that associated with intrinsic diffusion in the unperturbed system.

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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9406011,
  title  = {Chaos and Noise in a Truncated Toda Potential},
  author = {Salman Habib and Henry E. Kandrup and M. Elaine Mahon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9406011},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages uuencoded PostScript (figures included), (A trivial mathematical error leading to an erroneous conclusion is corrected)