Scaling for External Noise at the Onset of Chaos

James P. Crutchfield
M. Nauenberg
J. Rudnick

Physics Department
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Abstract

The effect of external noise on the transition to chaos for maps of the interval which exhibit period-doubling bifurcations are considered. It is shown that the Liapunov characteristic exponent satisfies scaling in the vicinity of the transition. The critical exponent for noise is calculated with the use of Feigenbaum's renormalization group approach, and the scaling function for the Liapunov characteristic exponent is obtained numerically by iterating a map with additive noise.

Citation

J. P. Crutchfield, M. Nauenberg, and J. Rudnick. "Scaling for External Noise at the Onset of Chaos." Phys. Rev. Lett. 46 1981: 933-935.

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