S. Allie et A. Mees, FINDING PERIODIC POINTS FROM SHORT-TIME SERIES, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 56(1), 1997, pp. 346-350
We present an algorithm for finding low-order periodic points of chaot
ic maps from possibly very short time series, No information about the
map other than the time series is used. The method finds all the peri
odic points of a piecewise linear approximation of the map. We present
examples showing the effectiveness of the method for the Henon and Ik
eda maps and a chaotic electronic circuit, including a ''cycle expansi
on'' calculation of the Hausdorff dimension for the Henon map.