A new approach to fuzzy sets: Application to the design of nonlinear time series, symmetry-breaking patterns, and non-sinusoidal limit-cycle oscillations

Vladimir García-Morales

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2019, vol. 128, issue C, 191-202

Abstract: It is shown that characteristic functions of sets can be made fuzzy by means of the Bκ-function, recently introduced by the author, where the fuzziness parameter κ∈R controls how much a fuzzy set deviates from the crisp set obtained in the limit κ → 0. As applications, we present first a general expression for a switching function that may be of interest in electrical engineering and in the design of nonlinear time series. We then introduce another general expression that allows wallpaper and frieze patterns for every possible planar symmetry group (besides patterns typical of quasicrystals) to be designed. We show how the fuzziness parameter κ plays an analogous role to temperature in physical applications and may be used to break the symmetry of spatial patterns. As a further, important application, we establish a theorem on the shaping of limit cycle oscillations far from bifurcations in smooth deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems governed by differential equations. Following this application, we briefly discuss a generalization of the Stuart-Landau equation to non-sinusoidal oscillators.

Keywords: Fuzzy sets; Switching function; Wallpaper groups; Symmetry breaking; Time series; Limit cycles; Nonlinearity; Bifurcation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2019.08.003

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