One Dimensional Dynamics and the Rössler attractor

Abstract

The Rössler system is one of the best known chaotic dynamical systems, generating a chaotic attractor which, by the numerical evidence, arises by a period-doubling route to chaos. In this paper we state and prove a topological criterion for the existence of an attractor for the Rössler system - and then analyze the dynamics of the non-wandering set by reducing the flow to the dynamics of a well-known one dimensional model: the Quadratic Family, $x^2+c$, $-2\le c\le \frac{1}{4}$.