Strange Attractors with Various Equilibrium Types
J. C. Sprott
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI 53706, USA
Received: 26 January 2015 / Received in final form 20 May 2015
Published online 27 July 2015
ABSTRACT
Of the eight types of hyperbolic
equilibrium points in three-dimensional flows, one is
overwhelmingly dominant in dissipative chaotic systems. This
paper shows examples of chaotic systems for each of the eight
types as well as one without any equilibrium and two that are
nonhyperbolic. The systems are a generalized form of the
Nose-Hoover oscillator with a single equilibrium point. Six of
the eleven cases have hidden attractors and six of them exhibit
multistability for the chosen parameters.