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- From: jbaez@nevanlinna.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Chaos
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- References: <1992Jul15.145101.13858@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1076@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Jul20.153122.29180@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 21:19:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.153122.29180@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >In article <1076@kepler1.rentec.com> andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
- >>OK but there is still a universal attractor for the N-S equations as
- >>rigorously proved by Foias et. al. The dimension is about 500 (as one
- >>expects from various other estimates). Renormalization is not necessary
- >>for an attractor, although the Orszag-Yahot theory is essentially a
- >>renormalization theory. The Foias stuff can be found in the book by
- >>Foias and Constantine, but I think the attractor theorems came after
- >>his book with Roger Temam, although my memory may be playing tricks.
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- > Is this the 'universal attractor' for 2-D NS with periodic and
- > dirichlet BC's?
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- Could someone elaborate a bit more on this idea and what precisely was
- proved? I find it rather odd. I seem to recall that the 2-D nonlinear
- Schrodinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is completely integrable
- (let's take periodic boundary conditions, say). What sort of
- nonlinearities does Foias consider, and what is a "universal attractor"?
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