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Rigorous numerical study of the Colpitts oscillator with an exponential nonlinearity
1Department of Electrical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland.
Abstract:
The dynamics of the Colpitts oscillator with an exponential nonlinearity is investigated using rigorous interval arithmetic based tools. The existence of various types of periodic attractors is proved using the interval Newton method. The main results involve the chaotic case for which a trapping region for the associated return map is constructed and a rigorous lower bound for the value of the topological entropy is computed, thus proving that the system is chaotic in the topological sense. A systematic search for unstable periodic orbits embedded in the chaotic attractor is carried out and the results are used to obtain an accurate approximation of the topological entropy of the system.
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