title: Large-scale structural reorganization of strange attractors.
abstract: Strange attractors can exhibit bifurcations just as periodic orbits in these attractors can exhibit bifurcations. We describe two classes of large-scale bifurcations that strange attractors can undergo. For each we provide a mechanism. These bifurcations are illustrated in a simple class of three-dimensional dynamical systems that contains the Lorenz system.
authors.affiliation: CORIA UMR 6614, Université de Rouen, BP 12, Av. de l'Université, Saint-Etienne du Rouvray cedex, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Letellier
authors.forename: Tsvetelin D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Tsankov
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gilmore