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The phenomenon of the chaotic boundary crisis and the related concept of the ‘chaotic destroyer saddle’ has become recently a new problem in the studies of the destruction of chaotic attractors in nonlinear oscillators. As it is known, in the case of regular boundary crisis, the homoclinic bifurcation of the destroyer saddle defines the parameters of the annihilation of the chaotic attractor. In contrast, at the chaotic boundary crisis, the outset of the destroyer saddle which branches away from the chaotic attractor is tangled prior to the crisis. In our paper, the main point of interest is the problem of a relation, if any, between the homoclinic tangling of the destroyer saddle and the other properties of the system which may accompany the chaotic as well as the regular boundary crisis. In particular, the question if the phenomena of fractal basin boundary, indeterminate outcome, and a period of the destroyer saddle, are directly implied by the structure of the destroyer saddle invariant manifolds, is examined for some examples of the boundary crisis that occur in the mathematical models of the twin-well and the single-well potential nonlinear oscillators.
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Szemplińska-Stupnicka, W., Zubrzycki, A. & Tyrkiel, E. Properties of Chaotic and Regular Boundary Crisis in Dissipative Driven Nonlinear Oscillators. Nonlinear Dynamics 19, 19–36 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008339214577
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