THE THEORY OF CONFINORS IN CHUA’S CIRCUIT: ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF BIFURCATIONS AND ATTRACTORS

We apply the new concept of confinors and anti-confinors, initially defined for ordinary differential equations constrained on a cusp manifold, to the equations governing the circuit dynamics of Chua’s circuit. We especially emphasize some properties of the confinors of Chua’s equation with respect to the patterns in the time waveforms. Some of these properties lead to a very accurate numerical method for the computation of the half-Poincaré maps which reveal the precise structures of Chua’s strange attractors and the exact bifurcation diagrams with the help of a special sequence of change of coordinates. We also recall how such accurate methods allow the reliable numerical observation of the coexistence of three distinct chaotic attractors for at least one choice of the parameters. Chua’s equation seemssurprisingly rich in very new behaviors not yet reported even in other dynamical systems. The application of the theory of confinors to Chua’s equation and the use of sequences of Taylor’s coordinates could give new perspectives to the study of dynamical systems by uncovering very unusual behaviors not yet reported in the literature. The main paradox here is that the theory of confinors, which could appear as a theory of rough analysis of the phase portrait of Chua’s equation, leads instead to a very accurate analysis of this phase portrait.