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Differential embedding of the Lorenz attractor.

Daniel J Cross¹, R Gilmore

¹Physics Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

|September 28, 2010

Summary

Embedding dynamical systems ideally preserves symmetry and dimension. However, for the Lorenz system, a four-dimensional embedding is necessary to capture the full flow, revealing a twisted manifold.

Area of Science:

Dynamical Systems Theory
Chaos Theory
Differential Geometry

Background:

Dynamical system embeddings ideally match the system's dimensionality and symmetry.
Achieving ideal embeddings is often challenging, particularly for systems with inherent symmetries.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the ideal embedding of the Lorenz system, a system with twofold rotation symmetry.
To determine the dimensional requirements for embedding the entire Lorenz flow, not just its attractor.

Main Methods:

Utilizing differential embedding techniques to analyze the Lorenz system.
Comparing embeddings of the Lorenz attractor versus the complete Lorenz flow.

Main Results:

Differential embeddings of the Lorenz system are not ideal, failing to preserve its twofold rotation symmetry.

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A three-dimensional embedding captures the Lorenz attractor but not the entire flow.

A four-dimensional embedding is required for the complete Lorenz flow, resulting in a flow on a twisted 3-manifold in R4.

Conclusions:

The ideal embedding of symmetric dynamical systems, like the Lorenz system, is often unattainable.
Higher dimensions are necessary to embed complex flows and their symmetries accurately.
The four-dimensional embedding reveals a unique, inversion-symmetric 3-manifold structure that cannot be projected into 3D without singularities.