KNEADINGS, SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS AND PAINTING LORENZ CHAOS

Abstract

A new computational technique based on the symbolic description utilizing kneading invariants is proposed, and verified for explorations of dynamical and parametric chaos in a few exemplary systems with the Lorenz attractor. The technique allows for uncovering the stunning complexity and universality of bi-parametric structures and detects their organizing centers — codimension-two T-points and separating saddles in the kneading-based scans of the iconic Lorenz equation from hydrodynamics, a normal model from mathematics, and a laser model from nonlinear optics.