Microextensive chaos of a spatially extended system

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Jul;66(1 Pt 2):017205. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.017205. Epub 2002 Jul 22.

Abstract

By analyzing chaotic states of the one-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation for system sizes L in the range 79 < or = L < or = 93, we show that the Lyapunov fractal dimension D scales microextensively, increasing linearly with L even for increments Delta L that are small compared to the average cell size of 9 and to various correlation lengths. This suggests that a spatially homogeneous chaotic system does not have to increase its size by some characteristic amount to increase its dynamical complexity.