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Phys. Rev. E 67, 046209 (2003) [6 pages]

Can simple renormalization theories describe the trapping of chaotic trajectories in mixed systems?

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M. Weiss1,2, L. Hufnagel1, and R. Ketzmerick1,3
1Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung and Institut für Nichtlineare Dynamik der Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
2EMBL, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
3Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Received 18 April 2002; published 21 April 2003

We investigate the relation between the chaotic dynamics and the hierarchical phase-space structure of the standard map as an example for generic Hamiltonian systems with a mixed phase space. We demonstrate that even in ideal situations when the phase-space structure is dominated by a single scaling, the long-time dynamics is not dominated by this scaling. This has consequences for the power-law decay of correlations and Poincaré recurrences.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.67.046209
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.67.046209
PACS:
05.45.Mt