A conjecture on route to chaos in a hard Duffing oscillator by homoclinic entanglement

摘要

Response of a weakly damped hard Duffing oscillator, which apparently does not admit any homoclinic entanglement, is analysed. A possibility of homoclinic entanglement is conjectured that may help to understand onset of chaotic behaviour under simple harmonic excitation. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.