A Piecewise Quadratic Maximum Entropy Method for the Statistical Study of Chaos

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-15-2015

Department

Mathematics

School

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Abstract

Let the Frobenius–Perron operatorPS:L1(0,1)→L1(0,1), related to a nonsingular transformationS:[0,1]→[0,1], have an invariant densityf⁎. We propose a piecewise quadratic maximum entropy method for the numerical approximation off⁎. The role of the partition of unity property of the quadratic functions for the numerical recovery off⁎has been depicted. The proposed algorithm overcomes the ill-conditioning shortage of the traditional maximum entropy method which only employs polynomials, so that any number of moments can be used to increase the accuracy of the computed invariant density. The convergence rate of the method is shown to be of order 3. Numerical results are presented to justify the theoretical analysis of the method.

Publication Title

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volume

421

Issue

2

First Page

1487

Last Page

1501

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