title: Embeddings of a strange attractor into R3.
abstract: The algorithm for determining a global Poincaré section is applied to a previously studied dynamical system on R2 x S1 and a one-parameter family of embeddings of the strange attractor it generates into R3. We find that the topological properties of the attractor are embedding dependent to a limited extent. These embeddings rigidly preserve mechanism, which is a simple stretch and fold. The embeddings studied show three discrete topological degrees of freedom: parity, global torsion, and braid type of the genus-one torus bounding the embedded attractor.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Tsvetelin D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Tsankov
authors.forename: Arunasri
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishtala
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gilmore