HORSESHOE IN THE HYPERCHAOTIC MCK CIRCUIT.

The well-known Matsumoto–Chua–Kobayashi (MCK) circuit is of significance for studying hyperchaos, since it was the first experimental observation of hyperchaos from a real physical system. In this paper, we discuss the existence of hyperchaos in this circuit by virtue of topological horseshoe theory. The two disjoint compact subsets producing a horseshoe found in a specific 3D cross-section, both expand in two directions under the fourth Poincaré return map, this fact means that there exists hyperchaos in the circuit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]