arXiv · chao-dyn/9806011
Confined chaotic behavior in collective motion for populations of globally coupled chaotic elements
Abstract
The Lyapunov exponent for collective motion is defined in order to characterize chaotic properties of collective motion for large populations of chaotic elements. Numerical computations for this quantity suggest that such collective motion is always chaotic, whenever it appears. Chaotic behavior of collective motion is found to be confined within a small scale, whose size is estimated using the value of the Lyapunov exponent. Finally, we conjecture why the collective motion appears low dimensional despite the actual high dimensionality of the dynamics.
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Naoko Nakagawa, Teruhisa S. Komatsu. 1998-06-08. Confined chaotic behavior in collective motion for populations of globally coupled chaotic elements. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.59.1675
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