Affiliation:
1. Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Merchant Venturer’s Building, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK
Abstract
Piecewise-continuous maps consist of smooth bran- ches separated by jumps, i.e. isolated discontinui- ties. They appear not to be constrained by the same rules that come with being continuous or differentiable, able to exhibit period incrementing and period adding bifurcations in which branches of attractors seem to appear ‘out of nowhere’, and able to break the rule that ‘period three implies chaos’. We will show here that piecewise maps are not actually so free of the rules governing their continuous cousins, once they are recognized as containing numerous unstable orbits that can only be found by explicitly including the ‘gap’ in the map’s definition. The addition of these ‘hidden’ orbits—which possess an iterate that lies on the discontinuity—bring the theory of piecewise-continuous maps closer to continuous maps. They restore the connections between branches of stable periodic orbits that are missing if the gap is not fully accounted for, showing that stability changes must occur in discontinuous maps via stability changes not so different to smooth maps, and bringing piecewise maps back under the powerful umbrella of Sharkovskii’s theorem. Hidden orbits are also vital for understanding what happens if the discontinuity is smoothed out to render the map continuous and/or differentiable.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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