On the structure of strange non-chaotic attractors in pinched skew products

The existence of non-continuous invariant graphs (or strange non-chaotic attractors) in quasiperiodically forced systems has generated great interest, but there are still very few rigorous results about the properties of these objects. In particular, it is not known whether the topological closure of such graphs is typically a filled-in set, i.e. consists of a single interval on every fibre, or not. We give a positive answer to this question for the class of so-called pinched skew products, where non-continuous invariant graphs occur generically, provided that the rotation number on the base is diophantine and the system satisfies some additional conditions. For typical parameter families these conditions translate to a lower bound on the parameter. On the other hand, we also construct examples where the non-continuous invariant graphs contain isolated points, such that their topological closure cannot be filled-in.

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