IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics Advance Access published online on October 27, 2009
IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, doi:10.1093/imamat/hxp028
Chaotic synchronization in lattices of two-variable maps coupled with one variable

Department of Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, Republic of China

Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City 60004, Taiwan, Republic of China

Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
Email: wwlin{at}math.nctu.edu.tw
Email: ccpeng{at}mail.ncyu.edu.tw
Corresponding author. Email: yqwangnju{at}yahoo.com
Received on October 4, 2007; Revision received September 8, 2009. Accepted on September 30, 2009
In this paper, we study chaotic synchronization in 1D lattices of two-variable maps coupled with one variable. We give a rigourous proof for the occurrence of chaotic synchronization of spatially homogeneous solutions in such coupled map lattices (CMLs) of lattice size n = 4 with suitable coupling coefficients. For the case of lattice size n > 4, we demonstrate numerical results of synchronized chaotic behaviour of the CMLs. Moreover, we show numerically that the difference between two variables manifests chaotic behaviour. This behaviour combined with the special coupling method in the CMLs guarantees high security in applications using our new model.
Keywords: chaotic synchronization; coupled map lattices; Lyapunov method; hyperchaos.