The structure of Lorenz attractors
The structure of Lorenz attractors
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10.1007/bf02684770
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1979-12
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Mathématiques DE L’I.H.É.S;Robert F. Williams
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Mathématiques DE L’I.H.É.S;Robert F. Williams
8———3^ ofE. N. Lorenz [7] has attracted much attention ([3],[lo],[12]) lately, in part because of its relation to turbulence. Lorenz obtained this system by" truncating" the Navier-Stokes equation; it offers a striking example of a strange attractor, vis-a-vis Ruelle-Takens [n].We present the Ruelle-Takens idea briefly. In order that any type of motion be observable, the set of initial conditions leading to this motion must be of positive measure. This essentially says that the motion must be bound to an attractor. Until recently, mathematicians knew of only two types—steady state attractors (or sinks) and periodic attractors. Thus when a persistent motion was seen to be neither steady state nor periodic, it was termed ((random 9? or" chaotic 53, and stochastic mathematics was invoked. It is just this non sequitur that Lorenz was attacking; his article is entitled" Deterministic aperiodic motion53 (1963).