INVERSELY UNSTABLE SOLUTIONS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS ON GENUS-p SURFACES AND THE TOPOLOGY OF KNOTTED ATTRACTORS

Abstract

In this paper, we will show that a periodic nonlinear, time-varying dissipative system that is defined on a genus-p surface contains one or more invariant sets which act as attractors. Moreover, we shall generalize a result in [Martins, 2004] and give conditions under which these invariant sets are not homeomorphic to a circle individually, which implies the existence of chaotic behavior. This is achieved by studying the appearance of inversely unstable solutions within each invariant set.