J.-R. Chazottes and B. Fernandez (eds): Dynamics of Coupled Map Lattices and of Related Spatially Extended Systems

Abstract

The book presents a collection of lecture notes written for the Coupled Map Lattices (CML) summer school/conference held at the Institute Henri Poincare in Paris in the beginning of the summer 2004. By a CML one usually understands a finite or countable collection of ‘sites’, a simple, usually low-dimensional, dynamical system placed at each site and some ‘coupling’ to systems at other sites. The sites are often located at points in a regular lattice (whence the name) but this need not be so. A series of 15 lectures gives the reader an overview of the state of art in the subject. Instead of reviewing each lecture let me give a list of some of the important questions discussed in the book (more or less in this order):