Book Shelf

Nonlinear dynamics references emphasizing time series and the topological analysis of dynamical systems.

ChaosBib --- a German List of Nonlinear Dynamics References.

Prichard's (BibTeX) list of nonlinear time series analysis references .

Molteno's (BibTeX) string references.

Introductory Books

Steven H. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering), Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.
(Excellent book for an introductory applied mathematics course at the undergraduate level.)

Nicholas B. Tufillaro, Tyler Abbott, Jeremiah Reilly, An Experimental Approach to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992. ISBN 0-201-55441-0.
(Good undergraduate introduction with an emphasis on specific physical examples and experimental techniques. Updates to the Macintosh programs include in the text are available by electronic transfer from the first author---nbt@reed.edu.)

R. Devaney, An introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989).

Advanced Books

Nonlinear Time Series Analysis

Martin Casdagli and Stephen Eubank (editors) Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting (Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting Held September, 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico), Proceedings Volume XII, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992.

Andreas S. Weigend and Neil A. Gershenfeld (editors), Time Series Prediction: Forecasting the future and understanding the past, Proceedings of he NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Comparative Time Series Analysis held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 14-17, 1992, Proceedings Volume XV, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.

One-Dimensional Dynamics

Lluis Alseda, Jaume Llibre, and Michal Misiurewicz, Combinatorial Dynamics and Entropy in Dimension One, World Scientific, 1993.

Welington de Melo and Sebastina van Strien, One-Dimensional Dynamics, Springer-Verlag (1993).

L. Block and W. A. Coppel, Dynamics in one dimension, Lecture Notes in Math. 1513, Springer, 1992.

Two-Dimensional Dynamics

J. Palis and F. Takens, Hyperbolicity & sensitive chaotic dynamics at homoclinic bifurcations, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 35, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

D. Schlomiuk (editor), Bifurcations and Periodic Orbits of Vector Fields, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute and Seminaire de Mathematiques superieures on Bifurcations and Periodic orbits of Vector Fields, Montreal, Canada, July 13-24, 1992, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

P. Boyland and T. Hall, Dynamics of Surface Homeomorphisms, World Scientific (to appear).

Other Recent Books of Possible Interest

Mark Pollicot, Lectures on ergodic theory and Pesin theory on compact manifolds, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 180, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Robert Gilmore, Castrophe Theory for Scientists and Engineers, Dover Publications Inc, 1981.

David Ruelle, Chance and Chaos, Penguin, 1993. (in my humble opinion the best introduction to what "complexity theory" may be all about).

J. Hale and H. Kocak, Dynamics and Bifurcations, Springer-Verlag, Texts in Applied Mathematics 3, 1991.

Jack K. Hale, Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems, Dover Publications Inc, 1963.

Ya. S. Sinai, Topics in Ergodic Theory, Princton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1994.

Jerold E. Marsden, Lectures on Mechanics, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 174, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

V. I. Arnold, Topological Invariants of Plane Curves and Caustics, University Lecture Series, Volume 5, American Mathematical Society, 1991.

Journals containing papers on nonlinear dynamics.

Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society)

Physics Letters (North-Holland)

Europhysics Letters

Physica D (North-Holland)

Physical Review E (American Physical Society)

Chaos (American Institute of Physics)

Nonlinearity (non@iopublishing.co.uk)

Journal of Nonlinear Science & Nonlinear Science Today (Springer-Verlag)

International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos (World Scientific)

Nonlinear Dynamics (Kluwer Academic)

Dynamics & Stability of Systems (Carfax Pub. Co.)

Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Cambridge University Press)

Other Journals of possible interest.

Journal of Statistical Physics

Journal of Physics A and E

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Journal de Physique

Journal de Physique Letters

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Proc. of the Royal Society

Physica Scripta

Journal of the Chemical Physics

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Bull. Am. Math. Soc.

Quaterly of Applied Math

J. of Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Pedagogical or Review Articles

American Journal of Physics

Physics World (http://www.iop.org, pwld@iopublishing.co.uk)

Reviews of Modern Physics

Physics Reports

Computers and Physics

The Physics Teacher

European Journal of Physics

Physics World

Contemporary Physics

American Mathematical Monthly

Mathematical Intelligencer

Trade or Commerical Journals

Physics Today

Nonlinear Science Today

Info World

Byte

MacWorld

Science News

The Scientist

Electronics

Chronicle of Higher Education

Nature

Review Articles and Special Volumes

Philip Boyland, Topological methods in surface dynamics, Topology and its Applications 58 (3), 223-298, 15 August 1994.

P. G. Drazin and G. P. King (editors), Interpretation of Time Series from Nonlinear Systems, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium and NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Interpretation of Time Series from Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, University of Warwick, England, 26-30 August 1991, Physica D 58 (1-4), 15 September 1992.

H. D. I. Abarbanel, R. Brown, J. J. Sidorowich, and L. S. Tsimring, Reviews of Modern Physics 65, 1331 (1993).

R. Badii et. al., Progess in the analysis of experimental chaos through periodic orbits, Reviews of Modern Physics, 66 (4), 1389-1415 (October 1994).

Papers

S. Smale, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 73, 747 (1967).

J. Milnor and W. Thurston, in Dynamical Systems, edited by J. Alexander, Lecture Notes in Math. Vol. 1342 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988), p. 465.

T. Hall, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 58 (1993).

T. Hall, Nonlinearity 7, 367 (1994); ibid 7, 861 (1994).

G. B. Mindlin, H. Solari, M. Natiello, R. Gilmore, and X-J. Hou, J. Nonlinear Sci. 1, 146 (1991).

G. B. Mindlin and R. Gilmore, Physica D 58, 229 (1992).

G. B. Mindlin, X-J. Hou, H. G. Solari, R. Gilmore, and N. B. Tufillaro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2350 (1990).

F. Papoff, E. Arimondo, F. Fioretto, G. B. Mindlin, H. G. Solari, and R. Gilmore, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1128 (1992).

G. B. Mindlin, R. Lopez-Ruiz, H. G. Solari, and R. Gilmore, Phys. Rev. E 46, 4297 (1993).

K. T. Hansen, Phys. Letts. A 165, 100 (1992).

M. Lefranc, P. Glorieux, F. Papoff, F. Molesti, and E. Arimondo, Combining Topological Analysis and Symbolic Dynamics to Describe a Strange Attractor and Its Crises, Physical Review Letters 73 (10), 1364-1367 (Sept. 1994).

P. Holmes and R. Williams, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 90, 115 (1985); P. Holmes and D. Whitley, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 311, 43 (1984).

M. Misiurewicz and Z. Nitecki, Combinatorial Patterns for Maps of the Interval, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. bf 456 (1991).

P. Boyland, ``Braid types and a topological method of proving positive entropy'' (1984, unpublished); Contemp. Math. 81, 119 (1988).

T. Matsuoka, in Dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations, edited by G. Ikegami (World Scientific, Singapore, 1986) p. 58; Invent. Math. 70, 319 (1983); J. Diff. Eqs. 76, 190 (1988).

P. Melvin and N. B. Tufillaro, Phys. Rev. A bf 44, R3419 (1991).

P. Cvitanovic, G. H. Gunaratne, and I. Procaccia, Phys. Rev. A 38, 1503 (1988); K. T. Hansen, Symbolic dynamics in chaotic systems, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Oslo (1993).

N. B. Tufillaro, Braid analysis of (low-dimensional) chaos (e-print, 1993).

A. Sarkovskii, Ukrain. Mat. Z. 16 (1964), 61.

S. Baldwin, Discrete Math. 67, 111 (1987); C. Bernhardt, E. Coven, M. Misiurewicz, and I. Mulvey, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 333, 701 (1992).

M. Bestvina and M. Handel, Ann. Math. 135, 1 (1992); ``Train tracks for surface homeomorphisms,'' (1992, unpublished).

J. Los, ``Pseudo-Anosov maps and invariant train tracks in the disc: a finite algorithm,'' Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 66, 400 (1993).

J. Franks and M. Misiurewicz, ``Cycles for disk homeomorphisms and thick trees,'' in Contemporary Mathematics 152, C. K. McKord, ed. (AMS, Prov. RI, 1993)

D. Auerbach, P. Cvitanovic, J.-P. Eckmann, G. Gunaratne, and I. Procaccia, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 2387 (1987).

N. B. Tufillaro, H. Solari, and R. Gilmore, Phys. Rev. A 41, 5717 (1990).

P. Cvitanovic and B. Eckhardt, Nonlinearity 6, 277 (1993), and references therein.

T. Li and J. Yorke, Amer. Math. Monthly 82, 985 (1975).

J. M. Gambaudo, S. van Strien, and C. Tresser, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Phys. Theor. 50, 335 (1989).

P. Grassberger, H. Kantz, and U. Moenig, J. Phys. A 22, 5217 (1989).

N. B. Tufillaro, P. Wyckoff, R. Brown, T. Schreiber, and T. Molteno, Topological time series analysis of a string experiment and its synchronized model, Physical Review E 51 (1), 164-174 January 1995.

N. B. Tufillaro, Braids of a bouncing ball, Physical Review E 50 (6), 4509-4522 December 1994.

R. Brown, N. Rulkov, and N. B. Tufillaro, The effects of additive noise and drift in the dynamics of the driving on chaotic synchronization, Physics Letters 162A, 201-205 (1994).

R. Brown, N. Rulkov, and N. B. Tufillaro, Synchronization of chaotic systems: the effects of additive noise and drift in the dynamics and driving, Physical Review E 50 (6), 4488-4508 December 1994.

N. B. Tufillaro, Topological organization of (low-dimensional) chaos, in NATO-ASI proceedings, From statistical physics to statistical inference and back, J.-P. Nadal and P. Grassberger editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994).

N. B. Tufillaro, R. Holzner, L. Flepp, E. Brun, M. Finardi, and R. Badii, Template analysis for a chaotic NMR-laser, Physical Review A 44 (8), R4786 (1991).

P. Melvin and N. B. Tufillaro, Templates and framed braids, Physical Review A 44 (6), R3416 (1991).

G. B. Mindlin, X-J Hou, H. G. Solari, R. Gilmore, and N. B. Tufillaro, Classification of strange attractors by integers, Physical Review Letters 64 (20), 2350 (1990).

N. B. Tufillaro, H. G. Solari, and R. Gilmore, Relative rotation rates: fingerprints for strange attractors, Physical Review A 41 (10), 5717 (1990).

R. Gilmore and J. W. L. McCallum, Structure in the bifurcation diagram of the Duffing oscillator, Physical Review E 51 (2), 935-956 (1995).

Gabriel B. Mindlin and Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz, Hernan G. Solari, and R. Gilmore, Horseshoe implications, Physical Review E 48 (6), 4297-4304 December 1993.

Other Publications of Nicholas B. Tufillaro.