title: Dissipative chaotic scattering.
abstract: We show that weak dissipation, typical in realistic situations, can have a metamorphic consequence on nonhyperbolic chaotic scattering in the sense that the physically important particle-decay law is altered, no matter how small the amount of dissipation. As a result, the previous conclusion about the unity of the fractal dimension of the set of singularities in scattering functions, a major claim about nonhyperbolic chaotic scattering, may not be observable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Center for Systems Science and Engineering Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA.
authors.forename: Adilson E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Motter
authors.forename: Ying-Cheng
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Lai