The geometry of wild chaos and blenders

Date

Jun 29, 2017

Time

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Speaker

Dr. Stefanie Hittmeyer

Affiliation

University of Auckland, Dept. of Mathematics

Language

de

Main Topic

Mathematik

Other Topics

Mathematik

Host

Prof. Dr. S. Siegmund

Description

Wild chaos and blenders are two geometric mechanisms to construct complicated dynamics in noninvertible maps of dimension at least two and diffeomorphisms of dimension at least three. We first consider a two-dimensional noninvertible map that was introduced by Bam\'on, Kiwi and Rivera in 2006 as a model of wild Lorenz-like chaos. Wild chaos denotes the existence of a hyperbolic set with robust homoclinic tangencies. Advanced numerical techniques enable us to study how the critical set of the map interacts with the stable and unstable sets of a saddle fixed point as a parameter is varied along a path towards the wild chaotic regime. We find four types of bifurcations, namely, homoclinic tangencies (which also occur in invertible maps), and three types of tangency bifurcations involving the critical set (and specific to this type of noninvertible map). Overall, a consistent sequence of all four bifurcations emerges, which we present as a first attempt towards explaining the geometric nature of wild chaos. We further use this information to obtain an indication of the size of the parameter region where wild Lorenz-like chaos is conjectured to exist. We then consider a family of three-dimensional H\'enon-like maps that exhibit blenders in a specific regime in parameter space. Blenders are hyperbolic sets that admit invariant manifolds that behave like geometric objects which have dimensions higher than expected from the manifolds themselves. We compute stable and unstable manifolds in this system, enabling us to show one of the first numerical pictures of the geometry of blenders. Finally, we present numerical evidence suggesting that the regime of existence of the blenders extends to a larger region in parameter space. This talk is based on joint work with Bernd Krauskopf, Hinke Osinga and Katsutoshi Shinohara.

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