Poincaré map

Poincaré map

In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems, a first recurrence map or Poincaré map, named after Henri Poincaré, is the intersection of a periodic orbit in the state space of a continuous dynamical system with a certain lower dimensional subspace, called the Poincaré section, transversal to the flow of the system. More precisely, one considers a periodic orbit with initial conditions on the Poincaré section and observes the point at which this orbits first returns to the section, thus the name first recurrence map. The transversality of the Poincaré section basically means that periodic orbits starting on the subspace flow through it and not parallel to it.

A Poincaré map can be interpreted as discrete dynamical systems with a state space that is one dimension smaller than the original continuous dynamical system. Because it preserves many properties of periodic and quasiperiodic orbits of the original system and has a lower dimensional state space it is often used for analyzing the original system. In practice this is not always possible as there is no general method to construct a Poincaré map.

A Poincaré map differs from a recurrence plot in that space, not time, determines when to plot a point. For instance, the locus of the moon when the earth is at perihelion is a recurrence plot; the locus of the moon when it passes through the plane perpendicular to the earth's orbit and passing through the sun and the earth at perihelion is a Poincaré map. It was used by Michel Hénon to study the motion of stars in a galaxy, because the path of a star projected onto a plane looks like a tangled mess, while the Poincaré map shows the structure more clearly.

Definition

Let (R, "M", φ) be a global dynamical system, with R the real numbers, "M" the phase space and φ the evolution function. Let γ be a periodic orbit through a point "p" and "S" be a local differentiable and transversal section of φ through "p", called Poincaré section through "p".

Given an open and connected neighborhood "U" of "p", a function :P: U o S is called Poincaré map for orbit γ on the Poincaré section "S" through point "p" if
* "P"("p") = "p"
* "P"("U") is a neighborhood of "p" and "P":"U" → "P"("U") is a diffeomorphism
* for every point "x" in "U", the positive semi-orbit of "x" intersects "S" for the first time at "P"("x")

Poincaré maps and stability analysis

Poincaré maps can be interpreted as a discrete dynamical system. The stability of a periodic orbit of the original system is closely related to the stability of the fixed point of the corresponding Poincaré map.

Let (R, "M", φ) be a differentiable dynamical system with periodic orbit γ through "p". Let :P: U o S be the corresponding Poincaré map through "p". We define:P^0 := id_U:P^{n+1} := P circ P^n:P^{-n-1} := P^{-1} circ P^{-n}and :P(n, x) := P^{n}(x)then (Z, "U", "P") is a discrete dynamical system with state space "U" and evolution function:P: mathbb{Z} imes U o U.Per definition this system has a fixed point at "p".

The periodic orbit γ of the continuous dynamical system is stable if and only if the fixed point "p" of the discrete dynamical system is stable.

The periodic orbit γ of the continuous dynamical system is asymptotically stable if and only if the fixed point "p" of the discrete dynamical system is asymptotically stable.

See also

* Poincaré recurrence
* Stroboscopic map
* Hénon map
* Recurrence plot

References

* Nicholas B. TUFILLARO, " [http://www.drchaos.net/drchaos/Book/node101.html Poincaré Map] ", (1997)
* Shivakumar JOLAD, " [http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/a/saj169/Poincaremap/Htmlfiles/PoincareMapintro.html Poincare Map and its application to 'Spinning Magnet' problem] ", (2005)


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