Can the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings Shift a Tornado into Texas—Without Chaos?

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  • Yoshitaka Saiki
    Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan
  • James A. Yorke
    Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

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公開日
2023-05-02
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journal article
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  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
DOI
  • 10.3390/atmos14050821
公開者
MDPI AG

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<jats:p>In our title, “chaos” means there is a positive Lyapunov exponent that causes the tornado to move. We are asserting that a positive Lyapunov exponent is not always needed to have a butterfly effect. Lorenz’s butterfly effect initially appeared in meteorology and has captured the imaginations of people for applications to all kinds of fields. We feel it is important to understand simpler non-meteorological models to understand the additional aspects of the butterfly effect. This paper presents simple linear map models that lack “chaos” but exhibit a butterfly effect: our simplest model does not have any positive Lyapunov exponents but still exhibits a butterfly effect, that is, temporary exponential growth from a tiny perturbation such as one infected mosquito setting off an epidemic outbreak. We focus on a 24-dimensional version of the map where a significant butterfly effect is observed even though the only Lyapunov exponent is 0. We introduce a linear “infected mosquito” model that shows how off-diagonal matrix entries can cause a finite-time growth rate. We argue that the degree of instability in our systems can be better measured by its finite-time growth rate. Our findings suggest that even in linear systems, off-diagonal matrix entries can significantly impact the system’s behavior and be more important than the Lyapunov exponents in higher-dimensional systems. A focus on finite-time growth rates can yield valuable insights into the system’s dynamics.</jats:p>

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  • Atmosphere

    Atmosphere 14 (5), 821-, 2023-05-02

    MDPI AG

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