2101.00053
A note on combining chaotic dynamical systems using the fuzzy logic XOR operator.
Rezki Chemlal
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:55 AM
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The paper’s key step asserts that once f xor g is full-branch with bounded distortion, “the Lebesgue measure is ergodic,” and therefore the map is transitive and hence chaotic; however no invariance of Lebesgue measure is proved (full-branch + bounded distortion does not in general imply Lebesgue invariance), so the transitivity/chaos conclusion is unsupported . The candidate solution correctly reduces f xor g to φ∘f with φ(t)=|2t−1| and refines the partition to show h is full-branch—matching the paper’s Proposition 8 . But it then claims a “one-step hitting” property to deduce topological transitivity; that argument is invalid because h^{-1}(V) need not be dense for arbitrary open V, so transitivity is not established. In short: the paper’s proof of chaos is flawed (measure step), and the model’s proof of transitivity is flawed (topological step).
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\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions
\textbf{Journal Tier:} note/short/other
\textbf{Justification:}
The core structural observation (XOR of mirror maps doubles the number of full branches) is sound and potentially useful, but the main theorem claiming Devaney chaos is not established under the stated assumptions. The proof relies on an unproven claim that Lebesgue measure is ergodic (without showing invariance) and then jumps from measure-theoretic properties to topological transitivity. With strengthened hypotheses (e.g., uniform expansion) or a different proof strategy (symbolic dynamics/Markov structure), the result could be made correct. Substantive revision is needed to clarify assumptions, fix the proof, and correct references/typos.