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Re: Strange attractor questions

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From: Bernd Bieberstein
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:15
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In article <00962123.79FB9060@128.104.39.173> sprott@128.104.39.173 writes:

>   I'm writing a book that contains several hundred examples ...

>   2) I've heard that strange attractors arising from systems of ordinary
>   differential equations must have dimension greater than 2.0.  If this is true,
>   is there an easy way to see why?

Yes, there is an easy way to see.

In 2-D space the trajektories can NOT cross each other. This is only possible
in higher dimensions (of course they do not have common points then).

Bernd

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