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Conditional Entropy: A Tool to Explore the Phase Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P. Cincotta  and
C. Simó
P. Cincotta
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
C. Simó
Affiliation:
Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spaine-mail:carles@maia.ub.es

Abstract

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In this paper we show that the Conditional Entropy of nearby orbits may be a useful tool to explore the phase space associated to a given Hamiltonian. The arc length parameter along the orbits, instead of the time, is used as a random variable to compute the entropy. In the first part of this work we summarise the main analytical results to support this tool while, in the second part, we present numerical evidence that this technique is able to localise (stable) periodic and quasiperiodic orbits, ‘aperiodic’ orbits (chaotic motion) and unstable periodic orbits (the ‘source’ of chaotic motion). Besides, we show that this technique provides a measure of chaos which is similar to that given by the largest Lyapunov Characteristic Number. It is important to remark that this method is very simple to compute and does not require long time integrations, just realistic physical times.

Keywords

ChaosLyapunov Characteristic NumberEntropy
Type
Analytical and Numerical Tools
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 172: Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , 1999 , pp. 195 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999

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