Power-Law Sensitivity to Initial Conditions within a Logistic-like Family of Maps: Fractality and Nonextensivity

U. M. S. Costa; M. L. Lyra; A. R. Plastino; C. Tsallis

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.56.245

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Power-Law Sensitivity to Initial Conditions within a Logistic-like Family of Maps: Fractality and Nonextensivity

arXiv:cond-mat/9701096 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.56.245

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Power-law sensitivity to initial conditions, characterizing the behaviour of dynamical systems at their critical points (where the standard Liapunov exponent vanishes), is studied in connection with the family of nonlinear 1D logistic-like maps $x_{t + 1} = 1 - a ∣ x_{t} ∣^{z}, (z > 1; 0 < a \leq 2; t = 0, 1, 2, ...)$ The main ingredient of our approach is the generalized deviation law $\lim_{Δx(0) -> 0} Δx(t) / Δx(0)} = [1+(1-q)λ_q t]^{1/(1-q)}$ (equal to $e^{λ_{1} t}$ for q=1, and proportional, for large t, to $t^{1/ (1 - q)}$ for $q \neq = 1; q \in R$ is the entropic index appearing in the recently introduced nonextensive generalized statistics). The relation between the parameter q and the fractal dimension d_f of the onset-to-chaos attractor is revealed: q appears to monotonically decrease from 1 (Boltzmann-Gibbs, extensive, limit) to -infinity when d_f varies from 1 (nonfractal, ergodic-like, limit) to zero.

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Power-Law Sensitivity to Initial Conditions within a Logistic-like Family of Maps: Fractality and Nonextensivity

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