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This chapter deals with the sources of chaotic behavior. The theory relies on two fundamental concepts. The first, called hyperbolicity, deals with the issue of instability. It generalizes the notion of unstable (or stable) fixed point, to points which are neither fixed nor periodic.
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Collet, P., Eckmann, JP. (2006). Hyperbolicity. In: Concepts and Results in Chaotic Dynamics: A Short Course. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34706-4_4
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