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This manuscript is the first in a series of instalments that investigate spherically symmetric solutions within the effective dynamics program of Loop Quantum Gravity. The choice of lattice is adapted such that it remains invariant under a…

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The spatiotemporal chaos in the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model is studied. A model-free reinforcement learning algorithm is proposed to the design of a controller. There is no need for explicit knowledge on system, target states and unstable…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-26 Youming Lei , Yanyan Han

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

Self-consistent N-body simulations are efficient tools to study galactic dynamics. However, using them to study individual trajectories (or ensembles) in detail can be challenging. Such orbital studies are important to shed light on global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Manos , Rubens E. G. Machado

We study the regular or chaotic nature of orbits in a 3D potential describing a triaxial galaxy surrounded by a spherical dark halo component. Our numerical calculations show, that the percentage of chaotic orbits decreases exponentially,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-11 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

The ordered or chaotic character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional $(R,z)$ plane of an analytic axisymmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with an additional spherically symmetric central nucleus is investigated. Our aim is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

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

The recently developed method (Paper 1) enabling one to investigate the evolution of dynamical systems with an accuracy not dependent on time is developed further. The classes of dynamical systems which can be studied by that method are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. A. Kocharyan

We analyse how drag forces modify the orbits of objects moving through extended gaseous distributions. We consider how hydrodynamic (surface area) drag forces and dynamical friction (gravitational) drag forces drive the evolution of orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Ákos Szölgyén , Morgan MacLeod , Abraham Loeb

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

Based on thermodynamics, we study the galactic clustering of an expanding Universe by considering the logarithmic and volume (quantum) corrections to Newton's law along with the repulsive effect of a harmonic force induced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Sudhaker Upadhyay

Hamiltonian systems are known to conserve the Hamiltonian function, which describes the energy evolution over time. Obtaining a numerical spatio-temporal scheme that accurately preserves the discretized Hamiltonian function is often a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Anand Srinivasan , Jose E. Castillo

We show that symplectic Runge-Kutta methods provide effective symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian systems with index one constraints. These include the Hamiltonian description of variational problems subject to position and velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Robert I McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier , Matt Wilkins

As a result of resonance overlap, planetary systems can exhibit chaotic motion. Planetary chaos has been studied extensively in the Hamiltonian framework, however, the presence of chaotic motion in systems where dissipative effects are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Konstantin Batygin , Alessandro Morbidelli

Spatio-temporally chaotic dynamics of a classical field can be described by means of an infinite hierarchy of its unstable spatio-temporally periodic solutions. The periodic orbit theory yields the global averages characterizing the chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Predrag Cvitanovic

Context: Seasonal variations and climate stability of a planet are very sensitive to the planet obliquity and its evolution. This is of particular interest for the emergence and sustainability of land-based life, but orbital and rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Melaine Saillenfest , Jacques Laskar , Gwenaël Boué

We study the behavior of orbits in two different galactic dynamical models, describing the motion in the central parts of a triaxial elliptical galaxy with a dense nucleus. Numerical experiments show that both models display regular motion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We implement and investigate the numerical properties of a new family of integrators connecting both variants of the symplectic Euler schemes, and including an alternative to the classical symplectic mid-point scheme, with some additional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Hugo Jiménez-Pérez , Jean-Pierre Vilotte , Barbara Romanowicz

A wide range of implicit time integration methods, including multi-step, implicit Runge-Kutta, and Galerkin finite-time element schemes, is evaluated in the context of chaotic dynamical systems. The schemes are applied to solve the Lorenz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Viktoriya Morozova , James G. Coder , Kevin Holst

We describe the Reversibility Error Method (REM) and its applications to planetary dynamics. REM is based on the time-reversibility analysis of the phase-space trajectories of conservative Hamiltonian systems. The round-off errors break the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Federico Panichi , Krzyszof Goździewski , Giorgio Turchetti