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Dynamical instability is studied in a deterministic dynamical system of Hamiltonian type composed of a tracer particle in a fluid of many particles. The tracer and fluid particles are hard balls (disks, in two dimensions, or spheres, in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Pierre Gaspard , Henk van Beijeren

In this paper we analyze local structure of several chaotic attractors recently suggested in literature as pseudohyperbolic. The absence of tangencies and thus the presence of the pseudohyperbolicity is verified using the method of angles…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Pavel V. Kuptsov , Sergey P. Kuznetsov

Lyapunov's theorem provides a fundamental characterization of the stability of dynamical systems. This paper presents a categorical framework for Lyapunov theory, generalizing stability analysis with Lyapunov functions categorically. Core…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Aaron D. Ames , Joe Moeller , Paulo Tabuada

The dynamics of a system consisting of many spherical hard particles can be described as a single point particle moving in a high-dimensional space with fixed hypercylindrical scatterers with specific orientations and positions. In this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Astrid S. de Wijn

Reactivity, contractivity, and Lyapunov exponents are powerful tools for studying the stability properties of dynamical systems and have been extensively investigated in the literature for decades. In this paper, we review and extend the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Amirhossein Nazerian , Francesco Sorrentino , Zahra Aminzare

We introduce a definition of a "localization width" whose logarithm is given by the entropy of the distribution of particle component amplitudes in the Lyapunov vector. Different types of localization widths are observed, for example, a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tooru Taniguchi , Gary P. Morriss

Learning controllers merely based on a performance metric has been proven effective in many physical and non-physical tasks in both control theory and reinforcement learning. However, in practice, the controller must guarantee some notion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Arash Mehrjou , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Bernhard Schölkopf

Lagrangian coherent structures are effective barriers, sticky regions, that separate phase space regions of different dynamical behavior. The usual way to detect such structures is via finite-time Lyapunov exponents. We show that similar…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. D. Szezech , A. B. Schelin , I. L. Caldas , S. R. Lopes , P. J. Morrison , R. L. Viana

This paper presents a novel class of string tyre models with FrBD friction dynamics. By modelling the distributed carcass and tread deformations with string-like equations, the resulting formulation leads to a system of semilinear parabolic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Luigi Romano

This paper reports a robust scheme for topology identification and control of networks running on linear dynamics. In the proposed method, the unknown network is enforced to asymptotically follow a reference dynamics using the combination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado

Time-dependent potentials are common in galactic systems that undergo significant evolution, interactions, or encounters with other galaxies, or when there are dynamic processes like star formation and merging events. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Eduárd Illés , Dániel Jánosi , Tamás Kovács

In the study of chaotic behaviour of systems of many hard spheres, Lyapunov exponents of small absolute value exhibit interesting characteristics leading to speculations about connections to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Analytical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-13 A. S. de Wijn

This paper addresses the problem of controlling the temporal dynamics of complex nonlinear network-coupled dynamical systems, specifically in terms of neurodynamics. Based on the Lyapunov direct method, we derive a control strategy with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Zhongye Xia , Weibin Li , Zhichao Liang , Kexin Lou , Quanying Liu

We study a dynamical system with time dependent Hamiltonian by numerical experiments so as to find a relation between thermodynamics and chaotic nature of the system. Excess information loss, defined newly based on Lyapunov analysis, is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sasa , T. S. Komatsu

Diagonally dominant matrices have many applications in systems and control theory. Linear dynamical systems with scaled diagonally dominant drift matrices, which include stable positive systems, allow for scalable stability analysis. For…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Aivar Sootla , Yang Zheng , Antonis Papachristodoulou

Space-time directional Lyapunov exponents are introduced. They describe the maximal velocity of propagation to the right or to the left of fronts of perturbations in a frame moving with a given velocity. The continuity of these exponents as…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-11 Maurice Courbage , Brunon Kaminski

This article is concerned with stability analysis and stabilization of randomly switched nonlinear systems. These systems may be regarded as piecewise deterministic stochastic systems: the discrete switches are triggered by a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Debasish Chatterjee , Daniel Liberzon

We consider the data-driven stabilization of discrete-time linear time-varying systems. The controller is defined as a linear state-feedback law whose gain is adapted to the plant changes through a data-based event-triggering rule. To do…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Andrea Iannelli , Romain Postoyan

We investigate the geometrical structure of instabilities in the two-scales Lorenz 96 model through the prism of Lyapunov analysis. Our detailed study of the full spectrum of covariant Lyapunov vectors reveals the presence of a slow bundle…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Mallory Carlu , Francesco Ginelli , Valerio Lucarini , Antonio Politi

For the class of nonlinear input-affine systems with polynomial dynamics, we consider the problem of designing an input-to-state stabilizing controller with respect to typical exogenous signals in a feedback control system, such as actuator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Hailong Chen , Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis