Attractors of convex maps with positive Schwarzian derivative in the presence of noise

Abstract One-dimensional maps have proved to be useful models for understanding the transition to turbulence. We investigate a smooth perturbation of the well-known logistic system in order to examine numerically the change in the bifurcation behavior which is observed, when the Schwarzian derivative is allowed to become positive. We find coexistence of a fixed point attractor and a periodic or chaotic two-band-attractor. The chaotic two-band attractor can disappear by yielding a preturbulent state which will asymptotically settle down to a fixed-point. The chaotic behavior of some systems can be destroyed by arbitrarily small amounts of external noise. The concept of (ϵ, δ)-diffusions is used to describe the sensitivity of attractors against external noise. We also observe a direct transition from a fixed-point to a chaotic one-band attractor. This can be interpreted as type-III-intermittency of Pomeau and Manneville but with an almost linear scaling behavior of the Lyapunov exponent.

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