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Global Properties

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The area-preserving maps of Chapter 3 have given us a clear picture of the complex behavior in conservative systems as they undergo a transition to chaos. These maps, however, are somewhat special. For example, the whisker map describes the stochastic layer in the separatrix region of the Duffing oscillator, the standard map describes a small neighborhood of the stochastic layer, and the quadratic maps describe the neighborhood of isolated islands. In practice, we are often confronted with a physical system whose Hamiltonian we are given, and then we must determine as much as possible about its global dynamics. We have to ask: What regions of the phase space might undergo a to transition chaos and for what parameter values does it happen? For such systems, it is usually not possible to construct an area-preserving map analytically, but there is still a great deal we can learn about the global behavior by working directly with the Hamiltonian.

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Reichl, L.E. (2004). Global Properties. In: The Transition to Chaos. Institute for Nonlinear Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4350-0_4

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