# gst: transitions, how two saddles can increase the transient times.

FIG. 8. Attractor and chaotic saddles (..) amplified around three bands of the chaotic attractor.  The global chaotic saddle is colored blue, and the local chaotic saddle is colored red. The attractors are colored black. 

AA << consider a dissipative version of the standard nontwist map. Nontwist systems present a robust transport barrier, called the shearless curve, that becomes the shearless attractor when dissipation is introduced. This attractor can be regular or chaotic depending on the control parameters. Chaotic attractors can undergo sudden and qualitative changes as a parameter is varied. These changes are called crises, and at an interior crisis the attractor suddenly expands. Chaotic saddles are nonattracting chaotic sets that play a fundamental role in the dynamics of nonlinear systems, they are responsible for chaotic transients, fractal basin boundaries, chaotic scattering and they mediate interior crises. >>

<< In this work (AA) discuss the creation of chaotic saddles in a dissipative nontwist system and the interior crises they generate. (They) show how the presence of two saddles increase the transient times and analyze the phenomenon of crisis induced intermittency. >>️

Rodrigo Simile Baroni, Ricardo Egydio de Carvalho, et al. Chaotic saddles and interior crises in a dissipative nontwist system. arXiv: 2211.06921v1 [nlin.CD]. Nov 13, 2022. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06921

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Keywords: gst, transitions, dissipation, 

dissipative systems, chaos, saddle, chaotic saddle, crisis, interior crisis, intermittency

# gst: rare transitions in noisy net scenarios

AA << study small white noise perturbations of planar dynamical systems with heteroclinic networks in the limit of vanishing noise. (They)  show that the probabilities of transitions between various cells that the network tessellates the plane into decay as powers of the noise magnitude. (They) show that the most likely scenario for the realization of these rare transition events involves spending atypically long times in the neighborhoods of certain saddle points of the network. >>️

Yuri Bakhtin, Hong-Bin Chen, Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai. Rare transitions in noisy heteroclinic networks. arXiv: 2205.00326v1 [math.PR]. Apr 30, 2022.    https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00326

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keyword 'rumore'  in Notes

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Keywords: gst, transitions, networks, heteroclinic networks, noise

# gst: apropos of 'large deviations', the instanton, to trace rogue waves

<< Strong evidence is given that the rogue waves observed in the tank are hydrodynamic instantons, that is, saddle point configurations of the action associated with the stochastic model of the wave system. (..) these hydrodynamic instantons are complex spatiotemporal wave field configurations which can be defined using the mathematical framework of large deviation theory and calculated via tailored numerical methods. These results indicate that the instantons describe equally well rogue waves created by simple linear superposition (in weakly nonlinear conditions) or by nonlinear focusing (in strongly nonlinear conditions), paving the way for the development of a unified explanation to rogue wave formation. >>

Giovanni Dematteis, Tobias Grafke, et al. Experimental Evidence of Hydrodynamic Instantons: The Universal Route to Rogue Waves. Phys. Rev. X 9, 041057. Dec 18, 2019.

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041057

Stefano Trillo, Amin Chabchoub. Viewpoint: A Unifying Framework for Describing Rogue Waves. Physics 12, 146. Dec18, 2019.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/146

# gst: the strong impact on nanosheets by the weak van der Waals force

<< Van der Waals is a weak force that allows neutral molecules to attract one another through randomly fluctuating dipoles, depending on distance. Though small, its effects can be seen in the macro world, like when geckos walk up walls. >> 

<< Van der Waals forces are everywhere and, essentially, at the nanoscale everything is sticky, (..) When you put a large, flat particle on a large, flat surface, there's a lot of contact, and it's enough to permanently deform a particle that's really thin and flexible. >> 

Matt Jones. 

<< the ubiquitous, "weak" van der Waals force was sufficient to indent a rigid silver nanosheet. The phenomenon suggests possible applications in nanoscale optics or catalytic systems. >>

<< In further experiments, (..) nanospheres could be used to control the shape of the deformation, from single ridges when two spheres are close, to saddle shapes or isolated bumps when the spheres are farther apart. >> 

Mike Williams. Weak force has strong impact on nanosheets. Rice University. Dec 15, 2020. 

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-weak-strong-impact-nanosheets.html

Sarah M. Rehn, Theodor M. Gerrard-Anderson, et al. Mechanical Reshaping of Inorganic Nanostructures with Weak Nanoscale Forces. Nano Lett. doi: 10.1021/ acs.nanolett.0c03383. Dec 10, 2020. 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03383  

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# life: apropos of 'dancing at a fixed point'

the last interview to Dr Albert Bourla (Pfizer) about the annual (or maybe semi-annual (?)) shot reiteration of the vaccine against #sars-cov-2   remember to me the 'homoclinic dynamics' that I cited at the 13th Meeting of the Internat Epidemiol Associat - IEA (Sydney, 1993) ... after a large trajectories started at zero point (i.e.  the fixed point), the final point of the dynamic returns at the same zero point ...

<< People will be likely to need to have annual Covid vaccinations for many years to come, the head of Pfizer [Dr Albert Bourla ] has told the BBC >>️

Fergus Walsh. Pfizer boss: Annual Covid jabs for years to come. Dec 2, 2021. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59488848

Who knows if there is a convincing reason that explains why to treat a virus with a high frequency of mutations one should prefer a vaccine approach instead of an antiviral drug ...

to find: 'antiviral drugs covid-19'  

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=antiviral+drugs+covid-19&filter=datesearch.y_1

Apropos of 'homoclinic orbits' ...

<< the reinjection of the departing trajectories in the vicinity of an unstable fixed point of the saddle-focus type [..] is frequently associated with the emergence of orbits of a rather exceptional type known as 'homoclinic orbits'. These are trajectories that leave the fixed point but come back to it; in other words, they tend to the same limit when time t goes to +∞ as well as to -∞ . [..]. Homoclinic orbits are very sensitive to variation of parameter [parms] values and are generally destroyed if the [parms] do not satisfy a strict equality (in the terminology of [..] they are structurally unstable). However, for nearby values of the [parms] their disappearance leaves a very rich structure of orbit in phase space, some of which behave chaotically. >>️

Nicolis G., Prigogine I. Exploring complexity. Freeman, NY (1989): 130-131.

https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Complexity-Introduction-Gregoire-Nicolis/dp/0716718596

Apropos of: [+∞ , -∞] plus infinity, minus infinity; 

<< In modern mysticism, the infinity symbol has become identified with a variation of the ouroboros, an ancient image of a snake eating its own tail that has also come to symbolize the infinite, [..] >> 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_symbol

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Onda omoclina. Notes. Tuesday, Jan  11, 2005 (quasi-stochastic poetry)

<< ed assistere al mutar dell' onda omoclina / (..) >>

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https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/01/1639b-onda-omoclina.html

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Inchingolo GM.  Cultural transitions and epidemiology.  Proceedings of the 13th Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association - IEA, Sydney, Australia, Sept 26-29, 1993: 129.   Med Hypotheses 1994; 43(4): 201-206.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7838001/

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Onda di carambola. Notes. Nov  29, 2004. (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2004/11/1619-onda-di-carambola.html

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