title: Reply to "comment on 'how to obtain extreme multistability in coupled dynamical systems' ".
abstract: In this Reply we answer the two major issues raised by the Comment. First, we point out that the idea of constructing extreme multistability in simple dynamical systems is not new and has been demonstrated previously by other authors. Furthermore, we emphasize the importance of the concept of a conserved quantity and its consequences for the dynamics, which applies to all the examples in the Comment. Second, we show that the design of controllers to achieve extreme multistability in coupled systems is as general as described in Phys. Rev. E 85, 035202(R) (2012) by providing two examples which do not lead to a master-slave dynamics.
authors.affiliation: CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Hens
authors.affiliation: CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India and Department of Mathematics, University of Technology and Management, Shillong 793003, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.affiliation: ICBM, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, PF 2503, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Feudel
authors.affiliation: CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Dana
mesh_terms: D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics