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Phase volume contraction in dissipative systems
I am confused about phase-volume contraction in dissipative systems. Please help me catch the flaw in my understanding. From a macroscopic point of view I understand that a dynamic system tends to go ...
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Deviation from power law distribution of earthquakes
One of the most accepted framework on the relation between magnitude and frequency of the earthquakes, is that of the critical phenomena. In this framework magnitude of events must be distributed ...
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Equivalent system in Centre manifold theory
I was studying the centre manifold theory. It says (see Kuznetsov page 155, theorem 5.2) that the system on the left side of the picture is topologically equivalent to the one on the right.
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Why is the critical state in the Mean Field Bak-Sneppen Model a global attractor?
Simulations of the Bak-Sneppen Model of Species Evolution (introduced in http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.4083) show that it exhibits Self-Organized Criticality where after a transient ...
