ON THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF IDENTICALLY DRIVEN CHAOTIC SYSTEMS

In the present work we discuss the behavior of equally driven chaotic systems, discussing first the statistics of trajectory separation in t hese systems. An interesting situation is the coexistence of driving s ignals that, although they do not yield synchronization separately, do yield this behavior when combined. These studies are carried out in t he context of a generalization of a recently introduced driving synchr onization method [J. Guemez, M.A. Matias, Phys. Rev. E 52 (1995) R2145 ] that may be more realistic having in mind some applications. (C) 199 8 Elsevier Science B.V.