Critical curves and coexisting attractors in a quasiperiodically forced delayed system

Abstract: We study three critical curves in a quasiperiodically driven system with time delays, where occurrence of symmetry-breaking and symmetry-recovering phenomena can be observed. Typical dynamical tongues involving strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) can be distinguished. A striking phenomenon that can be discovered is multistability and coexisting attractors in some tongues surrounding by critical curves. The blowout bifurcation accompanying with on-off intermittency can also be observed. We show that collision of attractors at a symmetric invariant subspace can lead to the appearance of symmetry-breaking. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]