Why Instantaneous Values of the "Covariant" Lyapunov Exponents Depend upon the Chosen State-Space Scale

We explore a simple example of a chaotic thermostated harmonic-oscillator system which exhibits qualitatively different local Lyapunov exponents for simple scale-model constant-volume transformations of its coordinate q and momentum p : { q,p } --> { (Q/s),(sP) } . The time-dependent thermostat variable zeta(t) is unchanged by such scaling. The original (q,p,zeta) motion and the scale-model (Q,P,zeta) version of the motion are physically identical. But both the local Gram-Schmidt Lyapunov exponents and the related local "covariant" exponents change with the change of scale. Thus this model furnishes a clearcut chaotic time-reversible example showing how and why both the local Lyapunov exponents and covariant exponents vary with the scale factor s .

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