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a r X i v : m a t h / 9 8 1 2 1 4 4 v 1 [ m a t h .C A ] 2 5 D e c 1 9 9 8 Noise and chaotic disturbance on self-similar set? Zu-Guo Yu (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080, P. R. China. yuzg@itp.ac.cn) Fu-Yao Ren (Institute of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433 P.R.C.) Abstract The effect of noise on self-similar set is studied. The iteratie procedure used to generate the self-similar set is moidified by adding a stochastic variable to the diameter of generating sets at each iteration. The noise may causes the generating set to collapse to a point. Distribution functions are found describing the probability that any generating set collapse. The effect of chaotic disturbance on the iteration of self-similar set is studied. It is shown that the iterative procedure which describes the self-similar set is truncated under the influence of disturbance generated by the tent map. Conditions which lead to truncation of any chaotic map are also obtained. Key words: Noise, collapse, chaotic map, self-similar set. 1 Introduction Many dynamical systems have an attractor or a repellor that has in some way a self-similar structure. In reality, fractal growth is always under the influence of the en- vironment. In order to simulate realistic fractal growth, it is important to in corporate disturbances or noises into the iteration procedure. The effect of noise on chaotic dynamical systems is of great interest and has been studied by many authors. The early work on this problem was carried out by Crutchfield et al[1], who studied the effect of noise on period doubling in a discrete system. Addi- tional work was carried out by Svensmark and Samuelson[2] on the Josephson junction. Wiesenfeld and McNamara[3] have studied the amplification of a small resonant periodic perturbation in the presence of noise near the period doubling threshold. Arecchi et al[4] * Project partially supported by the Tianyuan Foundation of China.