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Nonextensivity and multifractality in low-dimensional dissipative systems

arXiv:cond-mat/9709226 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.53

Abstract

Power-law sensitivity to initial conditions at the edge of chaos provides a natural relation between the scaling properties of the dynamics attractor and its degree of nonextensivity as prescribed in the generalized statistics recently introduced by one of us (C.T.) and characterized by the entropic index . We show that general scaling arguments imply that , where and are the extremes of the multifractal singularity spectrum of the attractor. This relation is numerically checked to hold in standard one-dimensional dissipative maps. The above result sheds light on a long-standing puzzle concerning the relation between the entropic index and the underlying microscopic dynamics.

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