PERSISTENT STRANGE ATTRACTORS IN 3D POLYMATRIX REPLICATORS

Telmo Peixe, Alexandre A. Rodrigues

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Journal tier: Specialist/Solid
Processed: Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review

The model’s algebra (equilibrium and Hopf numerics) matches the paper’s system (7) and Lemma 4/6 precisely, and both argue for strange attractors via a Shilnikov-type homoclinic loop and a Poincaré map. However, the paper explicitly bases the existence of the homoclinic cycle and the generic tangency/unfolding on numerically supported Facts rather than a full proof, and the model asserts these ingredients as rigorously verified. Neither provides a complete, fully rigorous verification of the key global connection and generic tangency hypotheses needed to invoke Mora–Viana.

Referee report (LaTeX)

\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid

\textbf{Justification:}

The manuscript gives a concrete, explicit 3D polymatrix replicator with numerically compelling evidence for Shilnikov-type dynamics and strange attractors, and it situates the mechanism within the classic Shilnikov–Mora–Viana paradigm. However, the pivotal global ingredients (existence of a homoclinic cycle in the specific family and a generically unfolding quadratic tangency for the Poincaré map) are asserted as numerically supported Facts or remarks rather than proved. For a rigorous claim of persistent strange attractors, these must be established (or stated as explicit hypotheses) and the genericity/dissipativity conditions checked.