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Indefinite excursions and non-visibility of the one-dimensional RPSSL network under aperiodic dynamics

Show that, in the aperiodic parameter regime for the Rock–Paper–Scissors–Spock–Lizard system described in Section 3.3.4, trajectories exhibit excursions away from the one-dimensional set of heteroclinic connections indefinitely, implying that the trajectories do not satisfy any definition of visibility for the one-dimensional network.

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Background

Section 3.3.4 presents a regime where trajectories repeatedly visit all one-dimensional connections but sporadically traverse the interior of the two-dimensional unstable manifolds, suggesting non-visibility of the one-dimensional network.

In Section 4.2, the authors explicitly conjecture that such excursions persist indefinitely, which if proven would confirm non-visibility of the one-dimensional network in this regime.

References

We conjecture that these excursions continue to occur indefinitely, thus the trajectories do not satisfy any definitions of visibility.

Visibility of heteroclinic networks (2503.03440 - Castro et al., 5 Mar 2025) in Section 4.2 (Application of visibility definitions to examples)