Off-center Reflections: Caustics and Chaos

dc.creatorAu, Thomas Kwok-keung
dc.creatorLin, Xiao-song
dc.date1998-06-18
dc.date2001-02-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:25:05Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:25:05Z
dc.descriptionIn this article, we attempt to study the possible link between the dynamics of a circle map and the caustics of its iterations. The attention is on a geometrically defined off-center reflections, which, coincidentally, is also a generalization of standard perturbation of rotation. Some results of the caustics and dynamics of the family of maps are given. The method of symplectic topology is particularly exploited to study the caustics because of its potential in further development. The mode-locking behavior and width of resonance zone are also studied. Furthermore, there are interesting problems arised from experimental observations.
dc.description26 pages, 20 figures, AMS-LaTeX, revised edition, no offset problem. To appear in Experimental Mathematics
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806094
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806094
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77053
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.titleOff-center Reflections: Caustics and Chaos
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