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The Lorenz attractor is mixing

Dynamical Systems 2012-11-07 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study a class of geometric Lorenz flows, introduced independently by Afraimovic, Bykov & Sil'nikov and by Guckenheimer & Williams, and give a verifiable condition for such flows to be mixing. As a consequence, we show that the classical Lorenz attractor is mixing.

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@article{arxiv.math/0410231,
  title  = {The Lorenz attractor is mixing},
  author = {Stefano Luzzatto and Ian Melbourne and Frederic Paccaut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0410231},
  year   = {2012}
}