Critical transitions and perturbation growth directions

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Beitragende

  • Nahal Sharafi - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Autor:in)
  • Marc Timme - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW) (Autor:in)
  • Sarah Hallerberg - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW) (Autor:in)

Abstract

Critical transitions occur in a variety of dynamical systems. Here we employ quantifiers of chaos to identify changes in the dynamical structure of complex systems preceding critical transitions. As suitable indicator variables for critical transitions, we consider changes in growth rates and directions of covariant Lyapunov vectors. Studying critical transitions in several models of fast-slow systems, i.e., a network of coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators, models for Josephson junctions, and the Hindmarsh-Rose model, we find that tangencies between covariant Lyapunov vectors are a common and maybe generic feature during critical transitions. We further demonstrate that this deviation from hyperbolic dynamics is linked to the occurrence of critical transitions by using it as an indicator variable and evaluating the prediction success through receiver operating characteristic curves. In the presence of noise, we find the alignment of covariant Lyapunov vectors and changes in finite-time Lyapunov exponents to be more successful in announcing critical transitions than common indicator variables as, e.g., finite-time estimates of the variance. Additionally, we propose a new method for estimating approximations of covariant Lyapunov vectors without knowledge of the future trajectory of the system. We find that these approximated covariant Lyapunov vectors can also be applied to predict critical transitions.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer032220
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review E
Jahrgang96
Ausgabenummer3
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 19 Sept. 2017
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 29347007
ORCID /0000-0002-5956-3137/work/142242441