Popis: |
The multiple devil's staircase, that was observed in 1997 in a one-dimensional map with two discontinuous regions, showed a kind of consonant tower-like structures. All the branches that connected top and bottom phase-locked steps of the towers could be divided into two kinds. Our recent study found that actually 16 different kinds of tower branches existed in most parts of parameter space. 14 of them belong to the so-called dissonant structures. The number of types of corresponding dissonant branches is employed to describe the dissonance of the staircase. When the number of discontinuous regions, n, in the system function develops, the dissonance of the staircase increases with 2n3−n rule. |