Phys. Rev. A 37, 1711–1724 (1988)Unstable periodic orbits and the dimensions of multifractal chaotic attractorsReceived 28 September 1987; published in the issue dated March 1988 The probability measure generated by typical chaotic orbits of a dynamical system can have an arbitrarily fine-scaled interwoven structure of points with different singularity scalings. Recent work has characterized such measures via a spectrum of fractal dimension values. In this paper we pursue the idea that the infinite number of unstable periodic orbits embedded in the support of the measure provides the key to an understanding of the structure of the subsets with different singularity scalings. In particular, a formulation relating the spectrum of dimensions to unstable periodic orbits is presented for hyperbolic maps of arbitrary dimensionality. Both chaotic attractors and chaotic repellers are considered. © 1988 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.37.1711
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.37.1711
PACS:
03.20.+i, 47.20.Ky, 47.20.Tg, 47.25.Ae
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