“Basins With Tentacles”, 2021-06-10 (; similar):
To explore basin geometry in high-dimensional dynamical systems, we consider a ring of identical Kuramoto oscillators. Many attractors coexist in this system; each is a twisted periodic orbit characterized by a winding number q, with basin size proportional to e−kq2.
We uncover the geometry behind this size distribution and find the basins are octopus-like, with nearly all their volume in the tentacles, not the head of the octopus (the ball-like region close to the attractor).
We present a simple geometrical reason why basins with tentacles should be common in high-dimensional systems.
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