Abstract
Oscillations of an arc burning in mercury vapours and exposed to an external axial magnetic field were recorded. The fast Fourier transform, phase portrait construction and attractor dimension calculations show that the experimental results present a nonlinear dynamic system with a rich scenario of various metastable states and transitions between them. The system develops spontaneously with time mainly through a formation of new subharmonic frequencies. Among the different transition types especially the chaotic transitions may result in relatively long intervals of chaotic behaviour which are interesting from the point of view of the nonlinear system studies.
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