Spatiotemporal Chaos with Extended Spatial Interactions
Abstract
The chaotic dynamics of a large one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear maps with a spatial coupling of increasing extent is explored using the covariant Lyapunov vectors (CLVs). A theoretical approach is developed that predicts the spectral variation of the CLVs and the spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. The theoretical approach is independent of the details of the mapping function and requires only a description of the lattice coupling. The general structure of the spatial power spectrum of the CLVs is determined using only the eigenvectors of the coupling matrix. This yields a decomposition of the CLVs into two regimes. The first regime, corresponding to the largest Lyapunov exponents, contains highly entangled CLVs with significant contributions from large scale spatial structures and aligns with the sorted eigenvectors, which occur in pairs with wavenumbers that increase linearly with their index. The second regime contains significant mixing of length scales with increasing index. The index separating these two regimes is approximately equal to the fractal dimension of the dynamics.
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BibTeX
@misc{raj2026spatiotemporal,
title = {{Spatiotemporal Chaos with Extended Spatial Interactions}},
author = {A. Raj and M. R. Paul},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.01424},
eprint = {2609.01424},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01424},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Spatiotemporal Chaos with Extended Spatial Interactions
AU - A. Raj
AU - M. R. Paul
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.01424
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01424
AB - The chaotic dynamics of a large one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear maps with a spatial coupling of increasing extent is explored using the covariant Lyapunov vectors (CLVs). A theoretical approach is developed that predicts the spectral variation of the CLVs and the spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. The theoretical approach is independent of the details of the mapping function and requires only a description of the lattice coupling. The general structure of the spatial power spectrum of the CLVs is determined using only the eigenvectors of the coupling matrix. This yields a decomposition of the CLVs into two regimes. The first regime, corresponding to the largest Lyapunov exponents, contains highly entangled CLVs with significant contributions from large scale spatial structures and aligns with the sorted eigenvectors, which occur in pairs with wavenumbers that increase linearly with their index. The second regime contains significant mixing of length scales with increasing index. The index separating these two regimes is approximately equal to the fractal dimension of the dynamics.
ER -