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Lyapunov Exponents

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We have seen in the previous chapter that one of the fundamental questions about the dynamics of a system is to know whether it is predictable or not. The answer to this question is tightly related to analyse if chaos is present in the dynamical flow.

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Vallejo, J.C., Sanjuan, M.A.F. (2019). Lyapunov Exponents. In: Predictability of Chaotic Dynamics . Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28630-9_2

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