Fractal Dimension of Cantori
- 11 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (6) , 655-658
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.655
Abstract
At a critical point the golden-mean Kolmogrov-Arnol'd-Moser trajectory of Chirikov's standard map breaks up into a fractal orbit called a cantorus. The transition describes a pinning of the incommensurate phase of the Frenkel-Kontorowa model. We find that the fractal dimension of the cantorus is and that the transition from the Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser trajectory with dimension to the cantorus is governed by an exponent and a universal scaling function. It is argued that the exponent is equal to that of the Lyapunov exponent.
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