Bifurcation structures in two-dimensional parameter spaces formed only by chaotic attractors are still far away from being understood completely. In a series of three papers, we investigate the chaotic domain without periodic inclusions for a map, which is considered by many authors as some kind of one-dimensional canonical form for discontinuous maps. In the first part, we report a novel bifurcation scenario formed by crises bifurcations, which includes multi-band chaotic attractors with arbitrary high bandcounts and determines the basic structure of the chaotic domain.

In this work, we present two numerical methods for the detection of the number of bands of a multi-band chaotic attractor. The first method is more efficient but can be applied only for dynamical systems with a continuous system function, whereas the second one is applicable for dynamical systems with a discontinuous system function as well. Using the developed methods, we investigate a one-dimensional piecewise-linear map and report for both cases of a continuous and a discontinuous system functions some new bifurcation scenarios involving multi-band chaotic attractors.

Bifurcation structures in the two-dimensional parameter spaces formed by chaotic attractors alone are still far away from being understood completely. In a series of three papers, we investigate the chaotic domain without periodic inclusions for a map, which is considered by many authors as some kind of one-dimensional canonical form for discontinuous maps. In this second part, we investigate fine substructures nested into the basic structures reported and explained in part I. It is demonstrated that the overall structure of the chaotic domain is caused by a complex interaction of bandcount increment, bandcount adding and bandcount doubling structures, whereby some of them are nested into each other ad infinitum leading to self-similar structures in the parameter space.

Bifurcation structures in two-dimensional parameter spaces formed by chaotic attractors alone are still a long way from being understood completely. In a series of three papers, we investigated the chaotic domain without periodic inclusions for a map, which is considered by many authors as some kind of one-dimensional canonical form for discontinuous maps. In Part I, the basic structures in the chaotic region are explained by the bandcount increment scenario. In Part II, fine self-similar substructures nested into the bandcount increment scenario are explained by the bandcount-adding and -doubling scenarios, nested into each other ad infinitum. Hereby, we fixed in both previous parts one of the parameters to a non-generic value, and studied the remaining two-dimensional parameter subspace. In this Part III, finally we investigated the structures under variation of this third parameter. Remarkably, this step is the most important with respect to practical applications, since it cannot be expected that these operate exactly at the previously investigated specific value.

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