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An Improved Calculation Formula of the Extended Entropic Chaos Degree and Its Application to Two-Dimensional Chaotic
1Faculty of Engineering, Sanyo-Onoda City University, 1-1-1 Daigaku-Dori, Sanyo-Onoda 756-0884, Yamaguchi, Japan.
Abstract:
The Lyapunov exponent is primarily used to quantify the chaos of a dynamical system. However, it is difficult to compute the Lyapunov exponent of dynamical systems from a time series. The entropic chaos degree is a criterion for quantifying chaos in dynamical systems through information dynamics, which is directly computable for any time series. However, it requires higher values than the Lyapunov exponent for any chaotic map. Therefore, the improved entropic chaos degree for a one-dimensional chaotic map under typical chaotic conditions was introduced to reduce the difference between the Lyapunov exponent and the entropic chaos degree. Moreover, the improved entropic chaos degree was extended for a multidimensional chaotic map. Recently, the author has shown that the extended entropic chaos degree takes the same value as the total sum of the Lyapunov exponents under typical chaotic conditions. However, the author has assumed a value of infinity for some numbers, especially the number of mapping points. Nevertheless, in actual numerical computations, these numbers are treated as finite. This study proposes an improved calculation formula of the extended entropic chaos degree to obtain appropriate numerical computation results for two-dimensional chaotic maps.
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