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A degenerate singularity generating geometric Lorenz attractors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Freddy Dumortier
Affiliation:
Departement Wiskunde, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Universitaire Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Hiroshi Kokubu
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan
Hiroe Oka
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University Seta, Otsu 520-21, Japan

Abstract

A degenerate vector field singularity in R3 can generate a geometric Lorenz attractor in an arbitrarily small unfolding of it. This enables us to detect Lorenz-like chaos in some families of vector fields, merely by performing normal form calculations of order 3.

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