A New Class of Two-dimensional Chaotic Maps with Closed Curve Fixed Points

Abstract

This paper constructs a new class of two-dimensional maps with closed curve fixed points. Firstly, the mathematical model of these maps is formulated by introducing a nonlinear function. Different types of fixed points which form a closed curve are shown by choosing proper parameters of the nonlinear function. The stabilities of these fixed points are studied to show that these fixed points are all non-hyperbolic. Then a computer search program is employed to explore the chaotic attractors in these maps, and several simple maps whose fixed points form different shapes of closed curves are presented. Complex dynamical behaviours of these maps are investigated by using the phase-basin portrait, Lyapunov exponents, and bifurcation diagrams.