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Bhooshan Rajpathak1, Harish K Pillai1, Santanu Bandyopadhyay2
1Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India.
Abstract:
In this paper, we analytically examine the unstable periodic orbits and chaotic orbits of the 1-D linear piecewise-smooth discontinuous map. We explore the existence of unstable orbits and the effect of variation in parameters on the coexistence of unstable orbits. Further, we show that this structuring is different from the well known period adding cascade structure associated with the stable periodic orbits of the same map. Further, we analytically prove the existence of chaotic orbit for this map.
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