Fractal analysis of hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic fixed points and singularities of dynamical systems in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$

Lana Horvat Dmitrović

Published 2017-04-28Version 1

The main purpose of this article is to study box dimension of orbits near hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic fixed points of discrete dynamical systems in higher dimensions. We generalize the known results for one-dimensional systems, that is, the orbits near the hyperbolic fixed point in one-dimensional discrete dynamical system has the box dimension equal to zero and the orbits near nonhyperbolic fixed point has positive box dimension. In the process of studying box dimensions, we use the stable, unstable and center manifolds and appropriate system restrictions. The main result is that the box dimension of orbit equals zero near stable and unstable hyperbolic fixed points and on the stable and unstable manifolds. The main results in the nonhyperbolic case is that box dimension is determined by the box dimension on the center manifold. We also introduce the projective box dimension and use it as a sufficient condition for nonhyperbolicity. At the end, all the results for discrete systems can be applied to continuous systems by using the unit time map so we apply it to the hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic singularities of continuous dynamical systems in higher dimensions.