Lyapunov Exponents and the Natural Invariant Density Determination of Chaotic Maps: An Iterative Maximum Entropy Ansatz

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-26-2010

Department

Physics and Astronomy

School

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Abstract

We apply the maximum entropy principle to construct the natural invariant density and the Lyapunov exponent of one-dimensional chaotic maps. Using a novel function reconstruction technique, that is based on the solution of the Hausdorff moment problem via maximizing Shannon entropy, we estimate the invariant density and the Lyapunov exponent of nonlinear maps in one dimension from a knowledge of finite number of moments. The accuracy and the stability of the algorithm are illustrated by comparing our results to a number of nonlinear maps for which the exact analytical results are available. Furthermore, we also consider a very complex example for which no exact analytical result for the invariant density is available. A comparison of our results to those available in the literature is also discussed.

Publication Title

Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Volume

43

Issue

12

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