Identifying the structure of dynamical transitions in logistic map

Abstract: Nonlinear dynamical systems manifest rich variety of dynamical states and transitions driven by fluctuations. To understand the pattern of fluctuations during dynamical transitions, we investigate the structural features of chaos to order transition in logistic map. We determine fluctuations as amplitude jumps and encode them onto a complex network where nodes represent amplitude levels and links represent transitions between distinct amplitude bins. We discover that global network measures identify points of period doubling, regimes of periodicity and chaos, including interior crises events. Using local network measures, we also unravel novel peculiar parabolic-shaped patterns in the orbit diagram that we show are reminiscent of the distribution of stable and unstable periodic points in the bifurcation diagram.