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The symmetry of chaos / Robert Gilmore and Christophe Letellier.

Title
The symmetry of chaos / Robert Gilmore and Christophe Letellier.
Author
Gilmore, R. S., 1938-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Letellier, Christophe.
Description
xx, 545 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"The Symmetry of Chaos treats the interplay between chaos and symmetry, between dynamical systems and group theory, describing nonlinear dynamical systems that exhibit symmetry and generate chaotic attractors."--book jacket.
Subject
  • Chaotic behavior in systems
  • Symmetry (Mathematics)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-528) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Simple symmetries -- Image dynamical systems -- Covers -- Peeling bifurcations -- Three-fold and four-fold covers -- Multichannel intermittency -- Driven two-dimensional dynamical systems -- Larger symmetries -- Group theory basics -- Invariant polymials -- Equivariant dynamics in R -- Covering dynamical systems -- Symmetries -- Symmetry without groups: "Topological symmetry" -- All the covers of the horseshoe -- Addendix A A potpourri of equivariant systems.
ISBN
9780195310658
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library