Kaplan–Yorke map
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The Kaplan–Yorke map is a discrete-time dynamical system. It is an example of a dynamical system that exhibits chaotic behavior. The Kaplan–Yorke map takes a point (xn, yn ) in the plane and maps it to a new point given by
where mod is the modulo operator with real arguments. The map depends on only the one constant α.
Calculation method
[edit]Due to roundoff error, successive applications of the modulo operator will yield zero after some ten or twenty iterations when implemented as a floating point operation on a computer. It is better to implement the following equivalent algorithm:
where the and are computational integers. It is also best to choose to be a large prime number in order to get many different values of .
Another way to avoid having the modulo operator yield zero after a short number of iterations is
which will still eventually return zero, albeit after many more iterations.
References
[edit]- J.L. Kaplan and J.A. Yorke (1979). H.O. Peitgen and H.O. Walther (ed.). Functional Differential Equations and Approximations of Fixed Points (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 730). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-09518-7.
- P. Grassberger and I. Procaccia (1983). "Measuring the strangeness of strange attractors". Physica. 9D (1–2): 189–208. Bibcode:1983PhyD....9..189G. doi:10.1016/0167-2789(83)90298-1.