Dynamics of Coupled Map Lattices and of Related Spatially Extended Systems

This book is about the dynamics of coupled map lattices (CML) and of related spatially extended systems. It will be useful to post-graduate students and researchers seeking an overview of the state-of-the-art and of open problems in this area of nonlinear dynamics. The special feature of this book is that it describes the (mathematical) theory of CML and some related systems and their phenomenology, with some examples of CML modeling of concrete systems (from physics and biology). More precisely, the book deals with statistical properties of (weakly) coupled chaotic maps, geometric aspects of (chaotic) CML, monotonic spatially extended systems, and dynamical models of specific biological systems.

Overview of the state-of-the-art and of open problems useful to both post-graduate students and researchers Description of the (mathematical) theory of CML and some related systems

Inhalt
Clustering in Globally Coupled Maps.- Snychronisation in CML.- Dynamics of Frenkel-Kontorova Chains.- Attractors and Bifurcations in CML.- Dynamics of Genetic Regulation Networks.- Phase Transitions in CML.- Introduction to CML.- Topological Properties of Chaotic CML.- TBA.- Monotonic Dynamics of Extended Systems.- Neural Networks: Integro-Differential Models.- Equilibrium States for CML.- Transfer Operators in CML.