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The main elements of the phase space of a dynamical system are singular points and limits sets.1 Singular points and limit sets can both attract all adjacent phase trajectories and repel them. The former are often spoken of as attractors and the latter are said to be repellers.
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Landa, P.S. (2001). General properties of autonomous dynamical systems. In: Regular and Chaotic Oscillations. Foundations of Engineering Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45252-2_3
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