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Chaotic behavior in the Hénon mapping

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In a previous work Hénon investigated a two-dimensional difference equation which was motivated by a hydrodynamical system of Lorenz. Numerically solving this equation indicated for certain parameter values the existence of a “strange attractor”, i.e., a region in the plane which attracts bounded solutions and in which solutions wander erratically. In the present work it is shown that this behavior is related to the mathematical concept of “chaos”. Using general methods previously developed, it is proven analytically that for some parameter values the mapping has a transversal homoclinic orbit, which implies the existence of the chaotic behavior observed by Hénon.

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    Frederick R. Marotto

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Marotto, F.R. Chaotic behavior in the Hénon mapping. Commun.Math. Phys. 68, 187–194 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418128

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