Didier Sornette identified extremes in a number of
dynamic nonlinear systems — «associated with what can be called equivalently a phase transition, a bifurcation, a catastrophe (in the sense of Rene Thom) or a tipping point» — as dragon - kings.
Not exact matches
«It's also possible that the broader discussion of
nonlinear oscillations could be helpful to scientists examining other biological
systems that exhibit comparable
dynamic responses.»
Capitalism is a complex,
dynamic, adaptive and
nonlinear system because it has elements or agents that interact in large numbers together forming one or more structures that arise from interactions between such agents.
The economy, and most industries are
nonlinear dynamic systems, which means there will be cyclical behavior, and that behavior will be more volatile the greater the level of fixed commitments in the
system that must be satisfied.
Nature is a
nonlinear dynamic system, you are starring on the selected, smoothed linear Mauna Loa data in a 50 years time window at 4 km altitude.
Recent global climate change is also likely to affect large - scale atmospheric circulation patterns, with strong
nonlinear feedbacks between thermodynamic and
dynamic components of the climate
system (10, 11).
This is surely possible theoretically, since weather and climate are
nonlinear dynamic systems capable of abrupt onset of chaos (around some strange attractor).
The issue of feedbacks is raised but trying to understand feedbacks in climate without a framework of a
nonlinear / nonequilibrium
dynamic system is like trying to understand chemistry without the periodic table.
This is a property of the broad class of
nonlinear, complex,
dynamic systems.
Climate is a
nonlinear dynamic system, mathematically chaotic.
I hope to live long enough to read presentations of
systems of
nonlinear dynamic systems that are complete enough, tested enough, and accurate enough to make reasonably dependable predictions at least decades ahead.