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Horseshoes for singly thermostated hamiltonians

Chaotic Dynamics 2019-09-09 v1 Statistical Mechanics Dynamical Systems

Abstract

This note studies 1 and 2 degree of freedom hamiltonian systems that are thermostated by a single-variable thermostat. Under certain conditions on the hamiltonian and thermostat, the existence of a horseshoe in the flow of the thermostated system is proven.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02995,
  title  = {Horseshoes for singly thermostated hamiltonians},
  author = {Leo T. Butler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02995},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages; 1 figure