PHYSICAL REVIEW E 95, 062214 (2017)
From dynamical systems with time-varying delay to circle maps and Koopman operators
David Müller,* Andreas Otto,† and Günter Radons‡ Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany (Received 20 January 2017; revised manuscript received 18 May 2017; published 16 June 2017) In this paper, we investigate the influence of the retarded access by a time-varying delay on the dynamics of delay systems. We show that there are two universality classes of delays, which lead to fundamental differences in dynamical quantities such as the Lyapunov spectrum. Therefore, we introduce an operator theoretic framework, where the solution operator of the delay system is decomposed into the Koopman operator describing the delay access and an operator similar to the solution operator known from systems with constant delay. The Koopman operator corresponds to an iterated map, called access map, which is defined by the iteration of the delayed argument of the delay equation. The dynamics of this one-dimensional iterated map determines the universality classes of the infinite-dimensional state dynamics governed by the delay differential equation. In this way, we connect the theory of time-delay systems with the theory of circle maps and the framework of the Koopman operator. In this paper, we extend our previous work [A. Otto, D. Müller, and G. Radons, Phys.Rev.Lett.118, 044104 (2017)] by elaborating the mathematical details and presenting further results also on the Lyapunov vectors.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.062214
I. INTRODUCTION correspond to a reasonable physical model, characterized by transport or fixed evolutionary steps? In general, this is not Time-delay systems emerge, for example, in control the- true and the existence of such a well-behaved transformation ory [1], engineering [2], life science [3,4], chaos control [5], depends on the functional properties of the time-varying delay. and synchronization of networks [6]. In all of these fields, In fact, the resulting delay classification implies fundamental effects of time-varying delays are investigated. Introducing differences in the dynamics of systems that are equivalent to time-varying delays can improve the stability of machining systems with constant delay and the remaining systems, as processes [7] and of systems in general via time-delayed demonstrated in [16]. feedback control [8]. Furthermore, in biological models, So, let us consider a general d-dimensional dynamical time-varying delays arise naturally by taking into account system defined by the system of delay differential equations fluctuations of the environment [3,9], and also the effect on (DDE) with time-varying delay τ(t): synchronization is studied [10]. The functional structure of the delay itself influences mathematical properties of general z˙(t) = f (z(t),z(R(t)),t), where R(t):= t − τ(t)(1) delay systems such as causality, minimality [11], and spectral reachability [12]. is called retarded argument. Hence, the results presented below For some systems with time-varying delay it is known hold for all DDEs with one time-varying delay τ(t). In other that they can be transformed to systems with constant delay words, the results are independent of the specific form of f and because the delay is defined by an intrinsic constant delay and apply to autonomous and nonautonomous systems. Although a known time scale transformation [13]. This type of system the present theory holds only for systems with one delay, it pro- arises, for example, in biological models with threshold delays, vides a basis for a more general theory including systems with where the intrinsic constant delay represents the evolutionary multiple delays and, even more general, distributed delays. steps, which have to be passed to reach the state of adulthood In this paper, we focus on the influence of the functional and the corresponding time scale represents the grade of structure of the retarded argument on the state dynamics as evolution [3,14]. Further examples are systems with variable given by Eq. (1) and extend the theory established in [16]. transport delays, where the constant delay is given by the We will show that there is a natural connection between the length of the transport line and the corresponding time scale dynamics of systems with time-varying delay, the dynamics of represents the covered distance [15]. The question arises as to one-dimensional iterated maps, and the spectral properties of whether one can find a transformation for a general system the Koopman operator associated with these maps. This con- with time-varying delay, such that the initial system with nection itself is interesting because it relates well understood time-varying delay is equivalent to a resulting system with and distinct theories and may lead to a better understanding constant delay, or not. In other words, is there a well-behaved of delay systems with time-varying delay. The analysis of transformation in the sense that dynamical quantities are well dynamical systems in the framework of the Koopman operator defined for the new system with constant delay? And, are they is a wide topic of past and recent research [17,18] and is invariant under the transformation and does the new system applied, for example, in the computation of isostables and isochrons [19,20] or in global stability analysis [21]. The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II we derive the *[email protected] two delay classes as sketched in [16] and give a short overview †[email protected] on the differences in the dynamics. Sections III and IV deal ‡[email protected] with the separation of the dynamics related to the variable
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II. DELAY CLASSIFICATION We showed in [16] that two different types of delays can be identified, which result in fundamental differences in the dynamics of the corresponding delay system. In the following, we briefly introduce this classification by the analysis of the existence of a time scale transformation that transforms the system of Eq. (1) to a system with constant delay. Furthermore, we elaborate the differences in the dynamics and numerics of systems belonging to one or the other delay type. FIG. 1. Parameter space of an arbitrary system with time-varying = + A Every system of differential equations is equivalent to delay τ(t) τ0 2π sin(2πt). The white regions correspond to a a large set of systems of similar type that are connected conservative delay, where the system is equivalent to a system with among each other by time scale transformations. Such a constant delay. On the other hand, the black regions correspond to a transformation is easily done by the substitution of the original dissipative delay, where the system is not equivalent to a system with time scale t by an invertible and at least once differentiable constant delay. function t = (t ) of the new time scale t . In other words, one introduces the new variable y(t )by conjugacy between one-dimensional iterated maps acting on y = z ◦ , (2) the same interval preserves the rotation number, which is defined by [23] where ◦ denotes function composition and z(t) is the original Rk(t) − t variable. By the substitution of the new variable y(t ) into the ρ = lim =−c. (8) original delay Eq. (1) and by some rearrangements we obtain k→∞ k an equivalent delay system [22] If the retarded argument R(t) defines a map that is topological conjugate to a pure rotation, the constant delay c in Eq. (5)is ˙y(t ) = ˙ (t ) · f ( y(t ), y(Rc(t )),(t )), (3) determined by Eq. (8) and it follows directly from Eq. (4) that where the new retarded argument Rc(t ) is derived from the R(t) fulfills the criterion original retarded argument by qj lim R (t) + pj = t ∀ t, (9) −1 j→∞ Rc = ◦ R ◦ . (4) where pj is the jth convergent of the continued fraction If we find at least one function (t ) such that qj expansion [24]ofc =−ρ. Circle maps fulfilling this criterion R (t ) = t − c, with c>0(5) c exhibit marginally stable quasiperiodic (periodic) motion since we are able to transform the system with time-varying delay, they are topological conjugate to the pure rotation by an defined by Eq. (1), into a system with constant delay, Eq. (3). irrational (rational) angle c. Invertible maps that do not fulfill Equation (4) takes the structure of a conjugacy equation, the criterion above have stable fixed points or periodic orbits. which is known from the theory of one-dimensional iterated This follows directly from Poincare’s classification [23]. maps [23]. From this point of view, such an equation deter- Thus, the question as to whether a system of DDEs is mines the topological conjugacy between the iterated maps equivalent to a system with constant delay can be reduced to the question of the existence of a topological conjugacy k θk = R(θk−1) = R (θ0), (6) between the access map defined by the retarded argument = = k R(t) and a pure rotation. Equivalence means that the systems θk Rc(θk−1) Rc (θ0). (7) exhibit identical dynamics and that characteristic quantities are Since these maps describe the dynamics of the access to the invariant under the time scale transformation.1 The connection delayed state of our delay system, we call them access maps. to the existence of a circle map conjugacy leads to interesting In the following, we only consider invertible retarded consequences for systems with parameter families of delays. arguments R(t), i.e.,τ ˙(t) < 1, because noninvertible retarded As illustrated in Fig. 1, the parameter regions that are related to arguments cause problems with minimality and causality, and are even considered unphysical [11]. Now, let us assume further that the delay τ(t) is periodic with period 1, i.e., we 1By the iterative method given in [45] a time scale transformation measure time in units of the delay period. Since the related to constant delay can be computed even in the case where the access maps can be reduced to maps acting on the interval [0,1] we are map is not conjugate to a pure rotation. However, in this case the able to apply the theory of circle maps [23] and it follows that transformation is well defined only on finite time intervals but not for some retarded arguments R(t) the corresponding access for infinite times. Hence, asymptotic quantities such as Lyapunov map is topological conjugate to a pure rotation. The topological exponents are not well defined for the resulting systems.
062214-2 FROM DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH TIME-VARYING . . . PHYSICAL REVIEW E 95, 062214 (2017) a system that is equivalent to a system with constant delay form (a) 0 a Cantor set, whereas regions related to systems that are not equivalent to a system with constant delay are characterized 2 by Arnold tongues. n Obviously, the classification depends only on the properties 4 of the access map and not on the specific DDE. In other words, the classification is independent of the specific properties of f . 6 So, if there is any influence of the delay type on the systems exponent dynamics, the influence emerges in all types of time-delay 8 systems and represents a universal property of all systems with time-varying delay. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 The influence of the delay type on the systems dynamics and its universality can be demonstrated easily by the evolution index n of small perturbations and the related relaxation rates called Lyapunov exponents. The set of all Lyapunov exponents (b) 0 ordered from the largest to the smallest is called Lyapunov 2
spectrum. As already argued in [16], the asymptotic scaling n m2000 behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum depends on the delay 4 m1000 class. In Fig. 2, exemplary Lyapunov spectra of three delay m systems are shown for each delay type, whereby the spectra 6 were computed directly from the systems with time-varying m500 exponent delay without applying any transformation. The systems are 8 given by 10 0 100 200 300 400 z˙(t) = 2z(t)[1 − z(R(t))], (10a) 10z(R(t)) index n z˙(t) = − 5z(t), (10b) + 10 1 z(R(t)) FIG. 2. Comparison of the Lyapunov spectra between systems z¨(t) + z˙(t) + 4π 2z(t) = 8z(R(t)), (10c) with conservative delay (filled) and dissipative delay (empty), computed by the semidiscretization method [2,26]. (a) The Lyapunov where for constant delay Eq. (10a) is the Hutchinson equation spectra are shown for three different systems, where the systems arising from population dynamics [4], Eq. (10b) is the Mackey- fromtoptobottomaregivenbyEq.(10b) (circles), Eq. (10c) Glass equation known as a model for blood-production [25], (triangles), and Eq. (10a) (squares). (b) The convergence properties of and Eq. (10c) arises in the stability analysis of turning the method are illustrated for Eq. (10b), where m denotes the number processes [7]. To illustrate the universality of the following of equidistant points approximating the state of the delay system. As results, i.e., the independence of the specific dynamics of the a guide to the eye, the asymptotic scaling behavior for dissipative system, the parameters and the time-varying delay are chosen delay, which we derive in Sec. V, is represented by the dashed such that Eq. (10a) exhibits a limit cycle, Eq. (10b) chaotic gray line. The jumps in the spectra related to conservative delay dynamics, and Eq. (10c) a stable fixed point, respectively. and the deviation of the spectra from the dashed line for dissipative If the access map of a time-delay system is topological delay, respectively, indicate the bounds on the number of well conjugate to a pure rotation, the dynamics of the system approximated exponents. For all computations, we have chosen the delay τ(t) = τ + 0.9/(2π)sin(2πt) with the mean delay τ = 1.51 equals the dynamics of a system with constant delay. Since 0 0 and 1.54 for dissipative and conservative delay, respectively. the asymptotic scaling behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum for systems with constant delay is known to be logarithmic with respect to the index of the Lyapunov exponents [27], equation in Fig. 2(b) and for the remaining systems in Fig. 10 the scaling behavior of equivalent systems with time-varying in Appendix A. For conservative delays, the number of well delay is logarithmic as well. We call the delays with this approximated exponents increases much faster by increasing property conservative delay, because the related access map the number m of sampling points than for dissipative delay. is a measure preserving system and has no influence on the We see that the classification by the access map’s dynamics scaling behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum. If the access leads to interesting hitherto unknown phenomena such as the map does not fulfill the criterion (9), the specific delay above mentioned influence on the Lyapunov spectra and the system is not equivalent to a system with constant delay numerical properties of their computation. We will discuss this and, consequently, the asymptotic scaling behavior is not in more detail in Sec. VI. In the next section we separate the logarithmic as is shown in Fig. 2(a). Since the Lyapunov influence of the access map’s dynamics from the dynamics of spectrum decreases asymptotically faster than any logarithm, the delay system using a specific operator framework. we call the corresponding delays dissipative delay. Later, we will derive in detail that the scaling behavior is asymptotically III. DELAY DYNAMICS IN OPERATOR FRAMEWORK linear, which was already briefly demonstrated in [16]. The delay type also influences the convergence properties of In this section we give some preliminaries for the separation numerical algorithms as illustrated for the Mackey-Glass of the influence of the access map on the dynamics of the delay
062214-3 DAVID MÜLLER, ANDREAS OTTO, AND GÜNTER RADONS PHYSICAL REVIEW E 95, 062214 (2017) system. The method is derived from the method of steps for To adapt the decomposition of the solution operator of systems with time-varying delay (cf. [22]). The separation will our DDE to the aforementioned notation, we introduce the be used in Secs. IV and V for the explanation of the different restrictions Iˆk and Cˆk of the integration and the Koopman asymptotic scaling behavior of the Lyapunov spectra in Fig. 2. operator, respectively, related to the previously defined time For a given solutionz ˜(t)ofEq.(1), the linearized system intervals. The operator Cˆk is defined by the restriction of the for the dynamics of small perturbations x(t) = z(t) − z˜(t)is Koopman operator Cˆ to the domain of the related state xk(t) d given by living in an appropriate space F([tk−1,tk],R ) of functions d mapping [t − ,t ]toR . We call the family of operators Cˆ x˙ (t) = A(t) x(t) + B(t) x(R(t)), (11) k 1 k k access operators because they describe the access of the delay where A(t) = ∂z(t) f and B(t) = ∂z(R(t)) f denote the Jacobians system to the preceding state: of f with respect to the variable z(t) and the delayed variable ˆ F d → F d z(R(t)) taken at the unperturbed solutionz ˜(t). Consequently, Ck : ([tk−1,tk],R ) ([tk,tk+1],R ): without any loss of generality we can restrict our analysis to Cˆk[xk(t ),t] = xk(R(t)),t∈ [tk,tk+1]. (19) d-dimensional linear delay systems. ˆ ˆ In order to apply the method of steps to our delay system, it The restriction Ik of the integration operator I in our notation F d is convenient to remove the first term on the right-hand side of of labeled time intervals acts on the space ([tk,tk+1],R ) Eq. (11) to reduce the computation of the solution to a simple where our future state xk+1(t) lives and takes the form weighted integration of the system’s history. Hence, we use Iˆ [x + (t ),t] = M(t,t ) x + (t + ) the variation of constants approach and obtain the integral k k 1 k k 1 k 1 t formulation of Eq. (11): + dt M(t,t ) B(t ) xk+1(t ), t t k x(t) = M(t,t0) x(t0) + dt M(t,t ) B(t ) x(R(t )), (12) t ∈ [tk,tk+1]. (20) t0 ˆ where t0 denotes the initial time and M(t,t ) denotes the Since the operator Ik is equivalent to the solution operator fundamental solution of the ordinary differential equation for DDEs with constant delay in terms of the Hale-Krasovkii (ODE) part and solves notation where the time domain of the state is shifted to the time domain of the initial function and the position in the d M(t,t ) = A(t) M(t,t ), M(t ,t ) = Ed , (13) physical time is represented by labeling the state intervals [28], dt we call it constant delay evolution operator. For convenience, where Ed is the d-dimensional identity matrix. The operator we introduce the following short notation: on the right-hand side of Eq. (12) can be decomposed into the operators Iˆ and Cˆ and the integral formulation of our delay Lˆ ·=Lˆ [ · ,t], (21) equation can be represented by the fixed point equation where Lˆ stands for any of the above and below defined x(t) = Iˆ[Cˆ [x(t ),t ],t], (14) operators. Finally, the evolution of a solution of our linear DDE can where Cˆ denotes the Koopman operator also called composi- be expressed in terms of time intervals with finite length, tion operator with the symbol R(t) where the connection between two states on sequential time Cˆ [x(t ),t] = x(R(t)) (15) intervals is given by ˆ and I denotes the integral operator x + (t) = Iˆ Cˆ x (t ) (22) k 1 k k k t −1 Iˆ[x(t ),t] = M(t,t0)x[R (t0)] + dt M(t,t ) B(t ) x(t ). and we have derived a method that separates the dynamics t0 of the delay system with time-varying delay into the access (16) map’s dynamics represented by the access operators Cˆk and the dynamics of a system with constant delay represented The main idea of the method of steps is to divide the time scale into several subintervals, such that the solution of the DDE reduces to the solution of an inhomogeneous (a) (b) ODE. Trivially the intervals are chosen properly if the interval boundaries tk are connected by Ck Ck tk−1 = R(tk), (17) I k I k thus giving further meaning to the access map, Eq. (6). Hence, k 1 k k 1 the temporal evolution of a DDE can be described by the 0 0 0 tk1 tk tk1 iteration of operators acting on functions, which are defined on intervals ordered in time. To be consistent with our preceding FIG. 3. Illustration of the decomposition of the solution operator ˆ definitions we define the initial state x (t) as the initial function into the sequential action of the access operator Ck and the constant 0 ˆ inside the interval [R(t ),t ] and the state x in the time interval delay evolution operator Ik for (a) constant delay and (b) time-varying 0 0 k ˆ after k time steps as the function delay. For constant delay τ0 the access operator Ck reduces to a time shift by τ0 and for time-varying delay the access operator changes the xk(t) = x(t),t∈ [tk−1,tk]. (18) length of the state interval and deforms the state on the time domain.
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ˆ (n) by the constant delay evolution operators Ik. The method is qN of the state after N time steps xN (t)isnowgivenby illustrated in Fig. 3. N −1 (n) = (n) (n) (n) qN I k Ck q0 . (25) IV. DECOMPOSING THE DYNAMICS VIA FINITE k=0 SECTION METHOD Now, let us consider the projection of the dynamics of In the following, we introduce a method to determine our linear delay system defined by Eq. (11)onn-dimensional d the relaxation rate of the evolution of small volumes, called subspaces of F([tk−1,tk],R ) and analyze the evolution of a average divergence, under the dynamics of the DDE (1)ona (n) small n-dimensional initial volume V0 spanned by n linearly finite-dimensional subspace of its phase space. The method, independent vectors on such a subspace of the space of initial d which is a generalization of Farmers approach for systems functions F([t−1,t0],R ). The long term evolution of these vec- with constant delay [27] to systems with time-varying delay, tors and the related volume under the dynamics of Eq. (11)in is based on the method for calculating Lyapunov exponents general are dominated by the n largest Lyapunov exponents λl. given in [29] and uses the presented separation of the solution Thus, the asymptotics of the n-dimensional volume V (n) at time operator in Sec. III. N tN after subsequent projection to the related n-dimensional { } d Let us define the sets φki(t) i∈N to be the bases of each subspace of the underlying space F([t − ,t ],R )isgivenby d N 1 N canonical direction of the function spaces F([tk−1,tk],R ) and (n) n − { } ∼ l=1 λl (tN t0) ψki(t) i∈N to be the corresponding dual sets in the dual spaces VN e . (26) F ∗.2 In other words, let the mentioned sets define biorthogonal Since the long-time evolution of a small volume is in general systems of our spaces F endowed with a suitable inner product independent of the specific subspace, we choose as basis of vectors of the same and of vectors of different spaces F. vectors for our n-dimensional subspace the first m = n/d Then, the state xk(t) can be expanded into a series in terms of members of our basis {φ (t)} ∈ for each of the d canonical the basis vectors of the underlying space, i.e., ki i N directions of the phase space. So, an approximation of the ∞ volume evolution follows directly from the finite section xk(t) = qk,i φki(t). (23) approximation of the evolution operator and is given by = i 0 − V (n) N 1 Thus, x (t) is represented as an infinite-dimensional vector N ≈ det I (n)C(n) . (27) k (n) k k qk = cols(qk,0,qk,1,...) composed of the d-dimensional co- V0 k=0 efficient vectors q .Theith vector q is related to the ith k,i k,i Utilizing the factorization of the determinant of the product of basis function φ (t) and its components are related to the ki matrices, we obtain canonical directions of the state xk(t). Furthermore, we define ˆ (n) N −1 N −1 the matrix representations I k and Ck of the operators Ik and V N ≈ (n) · (n) Cˆ , respectively, such that the evolution of the state by Eq. (22) det I k det Ck . (28) k V (n) is represented by 0 k=0 k=0 The codomain of the access operator Cˆ equals the domain of qk+1 = I k Ck qk. (24) k the access operator Cˆk+1. Hence, the matrix product of their Obviously, the infinite-dimensional matrices I k and Ck are finite section approximations can be identified with the finite composed of (d × d) matrices, whereby each is related to section approximation of their product. So, we consider the one of the basis functions φki(t). For the following analysis product of the access operators Cˆk, it is convenient to choose matrix representations, i.e., to N −1 choose the bases and the inner product, in a way such that Dˆ = Cˆ := Cˆ − ...Cˆ Cˆ (29) shift operators are represented by identity matrices. This is a N k N 1 1 0 = quite natural assumption because in our framework the shift k 0 (n) operator is implemented by just switching the underlying and let DN be its n-dimensional finite section approximation. d space F([tk−1,tk],R ). In the case of a constant delay the Furthermore, we assume that the convergence of this approxi- ˆ operators Ck become shift operators and the whole dynamics mation in terms of {φki(t)}i∈N is well behaved in the sense that is sufficiently described by the Iˆk. One possible definition of for some unbounded sequence of N such a matrix representation can be found in Appendix B. − (n) (n) (n) N 1 Let I k , Ck , and qk be the n-dimensional approximation (n) ∼ (n) det DN det Ck . (30) of the above mentioned operators and the state at time tk, where k=0 n is an integer multiple of d.Then-dimensional approximation Finally, the volume evolution can be expressed by − V (n) N 1 N ≈ det I (n) · det D(n) . (31) 2Note that in the literature, particularly in [29,46], the dynamics (n) k N V0 = of DDEs is represented by a family of solution operators rather on k 0 Rd × F than F because of some mathematical issues defining the Obviously, the volume evolution factorizes into two parts solution operator on Lebesgue spaces, for example. But, as long as where the first part describes the influence of the successive we only consider continuous initial functions we avoid these issues. integrations and the second part describes the influence of the
062214-5 DAVID MÜLLER, ANDREAS OTTO, AND GÜNTER RADONS PHYSICAL REVIEW E 95, 062214 (2017) underlying dynamics of the successive access to the initial As a consequence, the asymptotic scaling behavior of the part state x0(t) by the retarded argument R(t). λI (n) of the Lyapunov spectrum, related to the constant delay More expressive than the explicit volume evolution is the evolution operators, results in related exponential rate, the average divergence δ , which can n 1 be computed by λI (n) ∼− ln(n). (40) τ¯ (n) 1 VN In this section, we have demonstrated that the average di- δn = lim ln = δI (n) + δC(n) (32) N→∞ t − t (n) N 0 V0 vergence and the asymptotic scaling behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum consist of two parts, which are defined by Eqs. (32) and can be separated into the parts and (35), respectively. One part describes the dynamics related N −1 to the constant delay evolution operators and characterizes a = 1 (n) δI (n) lim ln det I k (33) fundamental property of every time-delay system. The second N→∞ t − t N 0 k=0 part describes the characteristic dynamics of the retarded and access, i.e., the deformation of the state space in the time domain. In Sec. V the above presented method is applied to 1 (n) δ (n) = lim ln det D . (34) derive the influence of the dynamics of the retarded access on C →∞ − N N tN t0 the asymptotic scaling of the Lyapunov spectrum. The exponential rate δI (n) describes the volume evolution caused by the successive integrations and the rate δC(n) V. INFLUENCE OF THE DELAY TYPE describes the volume evolution caused by the successive access ON THE LYAPUNOV SPECTRUM to the initial state by the retarded argument R(t). Due to Eq. (26), δn describes the asymptotics of the sum of the n In this section we relate the delay types identified in Sec. II largest Lyapunov exponents. Hence, the asymptotic scaling to the asymptotic scaling behavior of the average divergence behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum can be computed by the and the asymptotic scaling behavior of the Lyapunov spectrum. limit of the difference of the approximations of δn and δn−1 for large n. Just as the average divergence the asymptotic scaling A. Conservative delays of the Lyapunov spectrum splits into two parts Let us begin with a special case of a conservative delay and = − λn ∼ δn − δn−1 = λI (n) + λC(n) . (35) define the retarded argument by R(t) t τ with the constant delay τ.WithEq.(19) in Sec. III we see that the access In the method described above, n has to be a rational multiple operators Cˆ reduce to the forward shift operator, shifting of the dimension d. Thus, Eq. (35) can only be applied k = the state by the delay τ. Since the shift is implemented by directly, if d 1 or if we have found expressions describing the change of the underlying space and is represented by the asymptotics of Eqs. (33) and (34) for large arbitrary n. an identity matrix as defined in Sec. IV, the finite section Otherwise, the asymptotic scaling of the Lyapunov spectrum approximation equals the n-dimensional identity matrix En in can be approximated by any basis:
1 (n) λn ∼ (δn − δn−d ). (36) C = E . (41) d k n
Now, let us investigate the part δI (n) of the average Since the determinant of En is equal to one we obtain (n) = divergence, respectively, the influence of the constant delay det (DN ) 1 for all n. Obviously, the part δC(n) of the evolution operators Iˆk. As already mentioned, the operators Iˆk average divergence equals zero and according to Eq. (40)the can be interpreted as evolution operators of one time step of asymptotic scaling of the Lyapunov spectrum results in the linear DDE (11) where the variable delay τ(t) is substituted λn ∼−C ln(n), (42) by the constant delay τk = tk+1 − tk. The divergence of their finite section approximation by matrices computed by the which is equivalent to the result obtained by Farmer [27]. Euler method can be determined by Farmer’s method [27]. For general conservative delay, let the access map R(t) For simplicity, we assume that ln | det[B(t)]| is integrable for fulfill Eq. (9) in Sec. II with irrational rotation number c = pj all t>t0. Thus, we obtain the asymptotic approximation for limj→∞ . The case of a conservative delay with rational qj large n rotation number is automatically included in the following pj p (n) ≈− + analysis by setting = and leads to the same result. With ln det I k n ln(n) O(n). (37) qj q Eqs. (9) and (15) we obtain With Eq. (33) we obtain for the asymptotic scaling of the part j→∞ δ (n) of the average divergence qj I Cˆ x(t + pj ) −→ x(t). (43) 1 δI (n) ≈− n ln(n) + O(n), (38) Hence, the qj th iteration of the Koopman operator Cˆ converges τ¯ to the temporal shift, which does not change the shape of the whereτ ¯ denotes the arithmetic average, given by state and the length of the state interval. So, it is convenient − to calculate the average divergence after q time steps and 1 N 1 j n τ¯ = lim τk. (39) the part δC( ) can be computed by utilizing the finite section N→∞ N ˆ k=0 approximation of the operator Dqj defined by Eq. (29). With
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ˆ state after q iterations of the solution operator is shifted in time Eq. (43) it is clear that the operator Dqj converges to the temporal shift by pj , and since the shift is represented by by p relative to the initial state, the part δC(n) of the average divergence has to be rescaled by p and according to Eqs. (36) the identity matrix, the finite section approximation of Dˆ q j and (40), the asymptotic Lyapunov spectrum is given by converges to the identity matrix (n) = det D(n) lim Dq En. (44) 1 q j→∞ j λ ∼−C ln(n) + ln . (50) n (n−d) dp det Dq Obviously, the determinant det(D(n)) related to the volume qj evolution caused by the access operator tends to one if we send In the further analysis we show that a dissipative delay leads to a linear asymptotic scaling behavior of the Lyapunov j →∞. The corresponding parts δC(n) and λC(n) of the average divergence and the Lyapunov spectrum, respectively, vanish spectrum, which can be made plausible by the following and the Lyapunov spectrum shows the logarithmic scaling property of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Koopman ξ ˆ behavior characteristic to systems with constant delay operator. So, let (t) be an eigenfunction of the operator Dq with the corresponding eigenvalue a. Since Dˆ maps a function ∼− q λn C ln(n), (45) to a function space whose member’s domain is shifted by p,the which is equivalent to Eq. (42) as one expects due to the terms “eigenvalue” and “eigenfunction” should be interpreted invariance of the Lyapunov exponents under suitable time scale as solutions of transformations. a ξ(t − p) = Dˆ q ξ(t ). (51)
B. Dissipative delays With the short calculation ˆ ξ j = ξ q j = ξ − j = j ξ − j Let us assume R(t) to be the lift of a circle map with rotation Dq ( (t )) [ (R (t))] [a (t p)] a [ (t p)] , p number q that fails the criterion (9). Poincare’s classification (52) for circle maps implies the existence of points t∗ with Rq (t∗) + ξ j p = t∗, in other words, q-periodic orbits [23]. For convenience it follows directly that ( (t)) is also an eigenfunction of ˆ j and without any loss of generality we set the initial time t to the operator Dq but with the corresponding eigenvalue a , 0 ξ = ξ ∗ an arbitrary periodic point t∗, leading to a periodic sequence whereby a constant (t) is always an eigenfunction with of interval lengths for the method of steps. The periodicity corresponding eigenvalue 1. In other words, the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of a Koopman operator form a semigroup [18]. of the delay τ(t) and the definition of the operators Cˆk imply that they are in some sense periodic with respect to k.The We assume that there is only one 0