Complex Systems

Robust Quasihomogeneous Configurations in Coupled Map Lattices Download PDF

L. Battiston
Instituto Studio Dinamica Grandi Masse--CNR,
S. Polo 1364, 30125 Venice, Italy

L. Bunimovich
Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
Krasikova 23, 117218 Moscow, USSR

R. Lima
Centre de Physique Theorique, Unite Propre de Recherche 7061,
CNRS-Luminy, Case 907, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France

Abstract

We study the evolution of a coupled map lattice in two dimensions with strong coupling. We show the tendency of such systems to assume (quasi) homogeneous space configurations evolving in time. We describe the mechanism of this phenomenon.