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Attractor basins
Dynamic trajectories
Attractor
Attractor
Figure 14.3 Schematic illustration of attraction of trajectories in phase space.
trajectory does not necessarily lead here to a single point as attractor, the whole
structure itself forms the strange attractor in this specific case. In the following,
however, we will only consider point attractors, while several other types of attractors
may exist as well, e.g., cycle attractors, torus attractors.
Simply stated, the general dynamical properties of attractors in phase space can
be illustrated as in Figure 14.3. When the initial state x(0) lies within the