Three Types of Chaotic Attractors in 3 D Maps

Abstract

Abstract Coupling a one-dimensional chaotic forcing to a stable fixed point in the plane may generate different fractal attractors embedded in three dimensions. The system with real eigenvalues of the fixed point gives rise to simple chaotic attractors with three different types of fractal structures. We show that the competition of local exponents provides a generic criterion for the classification of the fractal structures in dynamical systems.