The relationship between the problem of the symmetry of a plane tiling and the properties of nonintegrable dynamic systems is reviewed. The formation of stochastic layers and a stochastic web in the motion of linear and nonlinear oscillators subjected to a perturbation is discussed in detail. Emphasis is placed on research on the symmetry properties of a stochastic web with a fractal structure of a quasicrystal type. Structures with a quasicrystal symmetry form as a result of an interaction of two types of symmetries: translational and rotational. Various characteristics of structures with a quasicrystal symmetry are discussed: the distributions of stable and unstable points, the state density, and the Fourier spectrum. Quasicrystal structures in solid state physics, hydrodynamics, botany, and ornamental art are discussed.
PACS:61.44.Br, 05.45.Df (all) DOI:10.1070/PU1988v031n10ABEH005632 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1988/10/a/ Citation: Zaslavskii G M, Sagdeev R Z, Usikov D A, Chernikov A A "Minimal chaos, stochastic webs, and structures of quasicrystal symmetry" Sov. Phys. Usp.31 887–915 (1988)
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