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  2. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    Chaos theory (or chaology [1]) is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics. It focuses on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. These were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities. [2]

  3. List of chaotic maps - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a chaotic map is a map (an evolution function) that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior. Maps may be parameterized by a discrete-time or a continuous-time parameter. Maps may be parameterized by a discrete-time or a continuous-time parameter.

  4. Self-organized criticality - Wikipedia

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    Self-organized criticality (SOC) is a property of dynamical systems that have a critical point as an attractor.Their macroscopic behavior thus displays the spatial or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition, but without the need to tune control parameters to a precise value, because the system, effectively, tunes itself as it evolves towards ...

  5. Horseshoe map - Wikipedia

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    In the mathematics of chaos theory, a horseshoe map is any member of a class of chaotic maps of the square into itself. It is a core example in the study of dynamical systems . The map was introduced by Stephen Smale while studying the behavior of the orbits of the van der Pol oscillator .

  6. Period-doubling bifurcation - Wikipedia

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    Period doubling in the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation with periodic boundary conditions. The curves depict solutions of the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation projected onto the energy phase plane (E, dE/dt), where E is the L 2-norm of the solution.

  7. List of mathematical theories - Wikipedia

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    Almgren–Pitts min-max theory; Approximation theory; Arakelov theory; Asymptotic theory; Automata theory; Bass–Serre theory; Bifurcation theory; Braid theory; Brill–Noether theory; Catastrophe theory; Category theory; Chaos theory; Character theory; Choquet theory; Class field theory; Cobordism theory; Coding theory; Cohomology theory ...

  8. Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated enough physical systems exhibited almost exactly periodic behavior – called Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence) – instead of the expected ergodic behavior.

  9. Relativistic chaos - Wikipedia

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    In physics, relativistic chaos is the application of chaos theory to dynamical systems described primarily by general relativity, and also special relativity. Barrow (1982) showed that the Einstein equations exhibit chaotic behaviour and modelled the Mixmaster universe as a dynamical system.