Characterizing strange nonchaotic attractors.

Strange nonchaotic attractors typically appear in quasiperiodically driven nonlinear systems. Two methods of their characterization are proposed. The first one is based on the bifurcation analysis of the systems, resulting from periodic approximations of the quasiperiodic forcing. Second, we propose to characterize their strangeness by calculating a phase sensitivity exponent, that measures the sensitivity with respect to changes of the phase of the external force. It is shown that phase sensitivity appears if there is a nonzero probability for positive local Lyapunov exponents to occur. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.

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