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A new method for the optimal solutions is proposed. Originating from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory in the control field, the optimal solution is anticipated to be obtained in an asymptotically evolving way. By introducing a…

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A combination of implicit and explicit timestepping is analyzed for a system of ODEs motivated by ones arising from spatial discretizations of evolutionary partial differential equations. Loosely speaking, the method we consider is implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Mihai Anitescu , William J. Layton , Faranak Pahlevani

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide a powerful framework for modeling dynamic systems arising in a wide range of scientific domains. However, most existing ODE methods focus on a single system, and do not adequately address the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-08 Shuoxun Xu , Zijian Guo , Brooke R. Staveland , Robert T. Knight , Lexin Li

Inverse optimal control (IOC) aims to estimate the underlying cost that governs the observed behavior of an expert system. However, in practical scenarios, the collected data is often corrupted by noise, which poses significant challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ziliang Wang , Axel Ringh , Han Zhang

Ergodic Optimization is the process of finding invariant probability measures that maximize the integral of a given function. It has been conjectured that "most" functions are optimized by measures supported on a periodic orbit, and it has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Anthony Quas , Jason Siefken

This paper is concerned with the theory, construction and application of implicit Peer two-step methods that are super-convergent for variable stepsizes, i.e., preserve their classical order achieved for uniform stepsizes when applied to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Jens Lang , Bernhard A. Schmitt

We demonstrate that chaos can be controlled using a multiplicative exponential feedback control. All three types of unstable orbits - unstable fixed points, limit cycles and chaotic trajectories can be stabilized using this control. The…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Sangeeta D. Gadre , V. S. Varma

For appropriately chosen weights, temporal averages in chaotic systems can be approximated as a weighted sum of averages over reference states, such as unstable periodic orbits. Under strict assumptions, such as completeness of the orbit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford , Sam Quinn , Teodor Balabanski , Roman O. Grigoriev

This paper introduces and analyses a continuous optimization approach to solve optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and tracking type objectives. Our aim is to determine control or input functions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Vicky Holfeld , Michael Burger , Claudia Schillings

We calculate numerically the periodic orbits of pseudointegrable systems of low genus numbers $g$ that arise from rectangular systems with one or two salient corners. From the periodic orbits, we calculate the spectral rigidity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Mellenthin , S. Russ

This paper defines and solves a mathematical model for finding robust periodic timetables by proposing an extension of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP). In order to model delayed and not nominal travel times already in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Julius Pätzold

The finest state space resolution that can be achieved in a physical dynamical system is limited by the presence of noise. In the weak-noise approximation the neighborhoods of deterministic periodic orbits can be computed as distributions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-31 Jeffrey M. Heninger , Domenico Lippolis , Predrag Cvitanovic

In this article, we study the behaviour of discrete one-dimensional dynamical systems associated to functions on finite sets. We formalise the global orbit pattern formed by all the periodic orbits (gop) as the ordered set of periods when…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-07-12 Rene Lozi , Clarisse Fiol

Chaotic dynamics in systems ranging from low-dimensional nonlinear differential equations to high-dimensional spatio-temporal systems including fluid turbulence is supported by non-chaotic, exactly recurring time-periodic solutions of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-14 Sajjad Azimi , Omid Ashtari , Tobias M. Schneider

Poincare return maps are a fundamental tool for analyzing periodic orbits in hybrid dynamical systems, including legged locomotion, power electronics, and other cyber-physical systems with switching behavior. The Poincare return map…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Varun Madabushi , Elizabeth Dietrich , Hanna Krasowski , Maegan Tucker

As a contribution to the inverse scattering problem for classical chaotic systems, we show that one can select sequences of intervals of continuity, each of which yields the information about period, eigenvalue and symmetry of one unstable…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Thomas Bütikofer , Christof Jung , Thomas H. Seligman

We show that Pyragas delayed feedback control can stabilize an unstable periodic orbit (UPO) that arises from a generic subcritical Hopf bifurcation of a stable equilibrium in an n-dimensional dynamical system. This extends results of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Genevieve Brown , Claire M. Postlethwaite , Mary Silber

The efficient detection of chaotic behavior in orbits of a complex dynamical system is an active domain of research. Several indicators have been proposed in the past, and new ones have recently been developed in view of improving the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-07-05 A. Bazzani , M. Giovannozzi , C. E. Montanari , G. Turchetti

We show that in the semiclassical limit, classically chaotic systems have universal spectral statistics. Concentrating on short-time statistics, we identify the pairs of classical periodic orbits determining the small-$\tau$ behavior of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastian Müller

A pure frequency domain method for the computation of periodic solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is proposed in this study. The method is particularly suitable for the analysis of systems that feature distinct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Malte Krack , Lars Panning-von Scheidt , Jörg Wallaschek