Tuesday, December 18, 2012

1212.3961 (Francesco Ginelli et al.)

Covariant Lyapunov vectors    [PDF]

Francesco Ginelli, Hugues Chate', Roberto Livi, Antonio Politi
The recent years have witnessed a growing interest for covariant Lyapunov vectors (CLVs) which span local intrinsic directions in the phase space of chaotic systems. Here we review the basic results of ergodic theory, with a specific reference to the implications of Oseledets' theorem for the properties of the CLVs. We then present a detailed description of a "dynamical" algorithm to compute the CLVs and show that it generically converges exponentially in time. We also discuss its numerical performance and compare it with other algorithms presented in literature. We finally illustrate how CLVs can be used to quantify deviations from hyperbolicity with reference to a dissipative system (a chain of H\'enon maps) and a Hamiltonian model (a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3961

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