Chaos in Coupled Heteroclinic Cycles and its Piecewise-Constant Representation
arXiv:2202.00288 · doi:10.1016/j.physd.2023.133772
Abstract
We consider two stable heteroclinic cycles rotating in opposite directions, coupled via diffusive terms. A complete synchronization in this system is impossible, and numerical exploration shows that chaos is abundant at low levels of coupling. With increase of coupling strength, several symmetry-changing transitions are observed, and finally a stable periodic orbit appears via an inverse period-doubling cascade. To reveal the behavior at extremely small couplings, a piecewise-constant model for the dynamics is suggested. Within this model we construct a Poincaré map for a chaotic state numerically, it appears to be an expanding non-invertable circle map thus confirming abundance of chaos in the small coupling limit. We also show that within the piecewise-constant description, there is a set of periodic solutions with different phase shifts between subsystems, due to dead zones in the coupling.
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