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Strange nonchaotic attractors typically appear in quasiperiodically driven nonlinear systems. Two methods of their characterization are proposed. The first one is based on the bifurcation analysis of the systems, resulting from periodic approximations of the quasiperiodic forcing. Secondly, we propose th characterize their strangeness by calculating a phase sensitivity exponent, that measures the sensitivity with respect to changes of the phase of the external force. It is shown, that phase sensitivity appears if there is a non-zero probability for positive local Lyapunov exponents to occur.
The quasiperiodically forced logistic map is analyzed at the terminal point of the torus-doubling bifurcation curve, where the dynamical regimes of torus, doubled torus, strange nonchaotic attractor, and chaos meet. Using the renormalization group approach we reveal scaling properties both for the critical attractor and for the parameter plane topography near the critical point.
The problem of the existence of strange nonchaotic attractors (SNA's) in autonomous systems is discussed. It is demonstrated that the recently reported example of a SNA in an autonomous system [V. S. Anishchenko et al., Phys. Rev. E 54, 3231 (1996)] is in fact a chaotic attractor with positive largest Lyapunov exponent.