Universal scalings of universal scaling exponents

Abstract

Abstract. In the last decades, renormalization group (RG) ideas have been applied to describe universal properties of different routes to chaos (quasi-periodic, period doubling or tripling, Siegel disk boundaries, etc.). Each of the RG theories leads to universal scaling exponents which are related to the action of certain RG operators.The goal of this announcement is to show that there is a principle that organizes many of these scaling exponents. We give numerical evidence that the exponents of different routes to chaos satisfy approximately some arithmetic relations. These relations are determined by combinatorial properties of the route and become exact in an appropriate limit.