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Justus T C Schwabedal¹, Arkady Pikovsky, Björn Kralemann

¹Department of Physiology, Marburg University, D-35037 Marburg, Germany. jschwabedal@googlemail.com

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Area of Science:

Nonlinear Dynamics
Chaos Theory
Statistical Mechanics

Background:

Describing chaotic oscillations is challenging due to complex dynamics.
Existing phase descriptions often fail to decouple phase and amplitude.
Isochrones offer a way to define phase but are limited in chaotic systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce an optimal phase description for chaotic oscillations.
To generalize the concept of isochrones for chaotic systems.
To achieve maximal decoupling between phase and amplitude dynamics.

Main Methods:

Generalizing the concept of isochrones.
Defining optimal isophases as Poincaré surfaces with constant return times.
Analyzing the Rössler and Lorenz systems.

Main Results:

An optimal phase description for chaotic oscillations was successfully introduced.
Optimal isophases were defined as Poincaré surfaces minimizing return time variations.
The optimal phase dynamics were shown to be maximally decoupled from amplitude dynamics.

Conclusions:

The proposed optimal phase description provides a robust method for analyzing chaotic oscillations.
This method offers a proper description of the phase response in chaotic systems.
The approach is validated using the Rössler and Lorenz systems.