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Collective Chaos

chao-dyn 2009-10-31 v1 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

An algorithm to characterize collective motion is presented, with the introduction of ``collective Lyapunov exponent'', as the orbital instability at a macroscopic level. By applying the algorithm to a globally coupled map, existence of low-dimensional collective chaos is confirmed, where the scale of (high-dimensional) microscopic chaos is separated from the macroscopic motion, and the scale approaches zero in the thermodynamic limit. pacs:05.45+b,05.90+m,64.60.Cn

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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9805009,
  title  = {Collective Chaos},
  author = {Tatsuo Shibata and Kunihiko Kaneko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9805009},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages (REVTeX) + 4 figures

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