Towards a General Theory of Extremes for Observables of Chaotic Dynamical Systems

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 723-750

  Lucarini, Valerio ^a,b   Faranda, Davide ^a,c   Wouters, Jeroen ^a   Kuna, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Axiom A; Chaotic systems; Extreme value theory; Henon map; Kaplan Yorke dimension; Response theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893726520     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-013-0914-6     Document Type: Article

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