Local sensitivity of spatiotemporal structures

Abstract

We present an index for the local sensitivity of spatiotemporal structures in coupled oscillatory systems based on the asymptotic scaling of local-in-space, finite-time Lyapunov Exponents. For a system of nonlocally-coupled Rössler oscillators, we show that deviations of this index reflect the sensitivity to noise and the onset of spatial chaos for the patterns where coherence and incoherence regions coexist.

15 pages, 6 figures

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