F. Cuadros et R. Chacon, SUPPRESSION OF CHAOS BY RESONANT PARAMETRIC PERTURBATIONS - COMMENT, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 47(6), 1993, pp. 4628-4629
The inhibition of the chaotic behavior of the Duffing-Holmes oscillato
r by means of a small parametric perturbation of suitable frequency, a
s shown by Lima and Pettini [Phys. Rev. A 41, 726 (1990)], is here rec
onsidered. The discrepancies noted in that article between the analyti
cal (Melnikov method) and numerical (Lyapunov exponents) results are s
hown to be basically due to an error in the calculation of the Melniko
v distance rather than simply to the method's perturbative nature.