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Subcritical modulational instability and transition to chaos from periodicity

arXiv:nlin/0405064 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2004.03.068

Abstract

This study shows that a modulationally destabilized monochromatic wave in a fluid system may undergo a subcritical bifurcation directly into chaos, when dissipation is weak enough. Analysis is made within the framework of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equations.

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