On evolution of small spheres in the phase space of a dynamical system*
We study the connection between the entropy of a dynamical system and the boundary distortion rate of regions in the phase space of the system.
We study the connection between the entropy of a dynamical system and the boundary distortion rate of regions in the phase space of the system.
We discuss Lyapunov stability/instability of both lower and upper equilibria of free damped pendulum with periodically oscillating suspension point. We recall the results of Bogolyubov and Kapitza, provide new effective criteria of stability/instability of the equilibria of pendulum equation, and give the exact and complete proofs. The criteria obtained are formulated in terms of positivity/negativity of Green's functions of the periodic boundary value problems for linearized equations. Furthermore,...
The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we want to discuss some methodological issues related to the notion of strange nonchaotic attractor. On the other hand, we want to formulate a precise definition of this kind of attractor, which is "observable" in the physical sense and, in the two-dimensional setting, includes the well known models proposed by Grebogi et al. and by Keller, and a wide range of other examples proposed in the literature. Furthermore, we analytically prove that a whole...