COEXISTENCE OF POINT, PERIODIC AND STRANGE ATTRACTORS

Abstract

For a dynamical system described by a set of autonomous ordinary differential equations, an attractor can be a point, a periodic cycle, or even a strange attractor. Recently, a new chaotic system with only one stable equilibrium was described, which locally converges to the stable equilibrium but is globally chaotic. This paper further shows that for certain parameters, besides the point attractor and chaotic attractor, this system also has a coexisting stable limit cycle, demonstrating that this new system is truly complicated and interesting.