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A common goal in the study of high dimensional and complex system is to model the system by a low order representation. In this letter we propose a general approach for assessing the quality of a reduced order model for high dimensional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-02 Jie Sun , Erik M. Bollt , Takashi Nishikawa

We present a comparison of different numerical techniques for the integration of variational equations. The methods presented can be applied to any autonomous Hamiltonian system whose kinetic energy is quadratic in the generalized momenta,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-08 E. Gerlach , Ch. Skokos

Chaotic behavior in dynamical systems poses a significant challenge in trajectory control, traditionally relying on computationally intensive physical models. We present a machine learning-based algorithm to compute the minimum control…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 David Valle , Rubén Capeáns , Alexandre Wagemakers , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

We investigate the detailed dynamics of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems by studying the evolution of volume elements formed by unit deviation vectors about their orbits. The behavior of these volumes is strongly influenced by the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-19 Ch. Skokos , T. C. Bountis , Ch. Antonopoulos

Chaotic systems which are due to nonlinearity have attracted a great concern in the current world and chaotic models. Systems for a wide range of operation conditions have their application in almost all branches of engineering and science.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-09 Amin Gasmi

{} {To quantify the amount of chaos that exists in the local phase space.} {A sample of orbits from four different models of the Solar neighbourhood phase space are analysed by a new chaos identification (and quantification) technique.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dalia Chakrabarty , Ioannis V. Sideris

Recurrence in the phase space of complex systems is a well-studied phenomenon, which has provided deep insights into the nonlinear dynamics of such systems. For dissipative systems, characteristics based on recurrence plots have recently…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-22 Yong Zou , Reik V. Donner , Marco Thiel , Jürgen Kurths

We show how a recently introduced statistics [Patil et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 5878 (2001)] provides a direct relationship between dimension and predictability in spatiotemporal chaotic systems. Regions of low dimension are identified as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerson Francisco , Paulsamy Muruganandam

The reader can find in the literature a lot of different techniques to study the dynamics of a given system and also, many suitable numerical integrators to compute them. Notwithstanding the recent work of Maffione et al. (2011a) for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Luciano A. Darriba , Nicolás P. Maffione , Pablo M. Cincotta , Claudia M. Giordano

We propose a novel framework for approximating the statistical properties of turbulent flows by combining variational methods for the search of unstable periodic orbits with resolvent analysis for dimensionality reduction. Traditional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-22 Thomas Burton , Sean Symon , Ati Sharma , Davide Lasagna

An important point in analysing the dynamics of a given stellar or planetary system is the reliable identification of the chaotic or regular behaviour of its orbits. We introduce here the program LP-VIcode, a fully operational code which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-09 D. D. Carpintero , N. P. Maffione , L. A. Darriba

The regular and chaotic character of orbits is investigated in a 3D potential describing motion in the central parts of a barred galaxy. This potential is an extension in the 3D space of a 2D potential based on a family of figure-eight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-03 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

The sensitivity of long-time averages of a hyperbolic chaotic system to parameter perturbations can be determined using the shadowing direction, the uniformly-bounded-in-time solution of the sensitivity equations. Although its existence is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Davide Lasagna , Ati Sharma , Johan Meyers

Instabilities in compact planetary systems are generically driven by chaotic dynamics. This implies that an instability time measured through direct N-body integration is not exact, but rather represents a single draw from a distribution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Naireen Hussain , Daniel Tamayo

Low-dimensional chaotic systems such as the Lorenz-63 model are commonly used to benchmark system-agnostic methods for learning dynamics from data. Here we show that learning from noise-free observations in such systems can be achieved up…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Christof Schötz , Niklas Boers

This paper summarises an investigation of the effects of low amplitude noise and periodic driving on phase space transport in 3-D Hamiltonian systems, a problem directly applicable to systems like galaxies, where such perturbations reflect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry E. Kandrup , Ilya V. Pogorelov , Ioannis Sideris

Full general relativity requires that chaos indicators should be invariant in various spacetime coordinate systems for a given relativistic dynamical problem. On the basis of this point, we calculate the invariant Lyapunov exponents (LEs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Xin Wu , Yi Xie

Quantifying the complexity of cardiac systems is fundamental to understanding the onset of rhythm disorders, from mild arrhythmias to life-threatening fibrillation. In this work, we investigate how chaos shows up and evolves in simplified…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Xiaodong An , Mikael Toye , Flavio H. Fenton

In this work we revisit the geometric approach to chaos in Hamiltonian dynamics, by means of the Jacobi-Levi-Civita equation (JLCE). We inspect numerically two low-dimensional dynamical systems; show that, along chaotic orbits, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-19 L. Salasnich , F. Sattin

This paper explores backward error analysis for numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, particularly focusing on chaotic systems. Three approaches are examined: residual assessment, the method of modified equations, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Robert M. Corless