Toward a probabilistic approach to complex systems

Abstract The probabilistic approach to deterministic chaos and to bifurcation is outlined. The signature of chaos and bifurcation on the spectral properties of the Frobenius-Perron and Fokker-Planck operators is identified. A series of entropy-like quantities is introduced and their scaling properties are used to classify different types of dynamical processes generated by complex systems.

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