Abstract
This paper deals with the mixed synchronization (coexistence of synchronization and antisynchronization) of two chaotic financial systems. Two mixed synchronization criteria for two chaotic financial systems are derived with a single controller and without external controls, respectively. In addition, the control method and synchronization criteria are applied to study the mixed synchronization of a class of modified chaotic financial systems. Three examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness of our derived results.
1. Introduction
Many dynamical behaviors of fluctuations for investments, prices, and interest rates can be described by a three-dimensional financial system [1]. By choosing some proper parameters, the chaotic behaviors have been generated by financial systems. The chaos results in the unpredictable evolution during the stabilization for financial systems. In order to control chaotic financial systems, synchronization of two chaotic financial systems has been studied. The classical synchronization of two chaotic systems refers to the variables of one system which achieve the consensus with the counterparts of the other system [2–12]. Besides the classical synchronization of two chaotic systems, antisynchronization can also be generated by two chaotic systems, which means the variables of one system achieve the consensus with the negative values of counterparts of the other system [13–15]. It should be pointed out that the mixed synchronization (coexistence of synchronization and antisynchronization) has been observed for some chaotic systems, which means that some variables of one chaotic system achieve synchronization with the counterpart variables of the other chaotic system, and the other variables of chaotic systems achieve antisynchronization simultaneously [16–18].
The synchronization of two chaotic financial systems has been widely investigated in [19–25]. However, to the best of author’s knowledge, there are limited studies to investigate the coexistence of synchronization and antisynchronization of two chaotic financial systems [26, 27], in which the nonlinear control method (adaptive control) was used to achieve mixed synchronization. Within those existing studies of synchronization (not mixed synchronization) of two chaotic financial systems, the nonlinear control methods (active control and adaptive control) were utilized in [19–25]. Therefore, we focus on using the linear feedback control to achieve the coexistence of synchronization and antisynchronization of two chaotic financial systems.
In this paper, the mixed synchronization of two chaotic financial systems is studied. Two mixed synchronization criteria are derived with a single controller and without external controls for mixed synchronization of two chaotic financial systems, respectively. Those synchronization criteria and the control method are applied to investigate the mixed synchronization of a class of modified chaotic financial systems. The effectiveness of our results is demonstrated by three simulation examples.
2. Preliminaries
Consider the following chaotic financial system:where , , and are the interest rate, the investment demand, and the price index, respectively. Constants , , and are parameters which represent the saving amount, the cost per investment, and the elasticity of demand of commercial markets, receptively. , , and are the initial conditions of (1).
System (1) can be regarded as a master system. One can construct the following slave system:where , , and represent the state variables and , , and are gains. The initial conditions of (2) are given by , . .
The definition of synchronization of chaotic systems (1) and (2) refers to The antisynchronization of chaotic systems (1) and (2) is given as In this paper, the coexistence of antisynchronization and synchronization of chaotic systems (1) and (2) will be investigated; that is, some variables of chaotic systems (1) and (2) achieve antisynchronization, and the other variables of chaotic systems (1) and (2) achieve synchronization, which can be noted as the mixed synchronization of chaotic systems (1) and (2). In this paper, we focus on the case
Let , , and . Thus, one can derive the following error system:The initial conditions of (6) are , , and .
3. Main Results
In this section, some mixed synchronization criteria for chaotic financial systems will be given.
One can define the following Lyapunov function:
Theorem 1. If the following inequalities hold:then two chaotic financial systems described by (1) and (2) can achieve global mixed synchronization.
Proof. Calculating the derivative of along with (6) yieldsCondition (11) givesInequalities , in (8)-(9) and the inequality described by (13) indicateThe inequality described by (14) and in (10) imply that Using LaSalle invariant principle derives that the trajectories of (6) will be convergent to the largest invariant set in when . This ends the proof.
Remark 2. Theorem 1 gives a mixed synchronization criterion for chaotic financial systems (1) and (2). Compared with existing synchronization results in [19–23, 25] for chaotic financial systems by using nonlinear feedback controls (the active control and adaptive control), the linear feedback control is used in Theorem 1.
Remark 3. In [19–23], hyperchaotic financial systems with four dimensions were studied. This paper mainly investigates the mix synchronization of three-dimensional chaotic financial systems (1). How to achieve mix synchronization of four-dimensional hyperchaotic financial systems by using the linear feedback control is our research work in the future.
If and , one can have the following corollary.
Corollary 4. If , , and the following inequalities hold:then two chaotic financial systems described by (1) and (2) can achieve global mixed synchronization.
If , , and , one can have the following theorem.
Theorem 5. If , , , and the following inequalities hold:then two chaotic financial systems described by (1) and (2) can achieve global mixed synchronization.
Remark 6. Theorem 5 gives a mixed synchronization criterion, in which only a single controller is used.
Remark 7. In [26], the control was added to the slave financial systemwhere In addition, a Lyapunov function was given as follows: where , , and are the same as those defined in (6). By using adaptive control technique and calculating the derivatives of , two chaotic financial systems described by (1) and (18) can achieve mixed synchronization under the conditions such that where and , , and were constants such that It should be pointed out that it is difficult to obtain , , , and which increases the complexity of using mixed synchronization in [26]. The similar method was used to achieve mixed synchronization for two four-dimensional hyperchaotic financial systems in [27].
Remark 8. Compared with the difficulty to access , , , and in mixed synchronization results of [26, 27], Theorem 5 is easier to be used.
If , , , and , one can have the following theorem.
Theorem 9. If , , , , and the following inequalities hold:then two financial systems described by (1) and (2) can achieve global mixed synchronization.
Remark 10. If parameters , , and satisfy inequalities (23), two financial systems described by (1) and (2) can achieve global mixed synchronization without external controls.
4. An Application to Mixed Synchronization of Modified Chaotic Financial Systems
If , the chaotic financial system described by (1) can be transformed to the following system:where is a constant and , , , , , and are the same as those defined in (1). The initial conditions of (24) are the same as those in (1). System (24) was noted as the modified chaotic financial system in [24].
It should be pointed out that Theorems 1, 5, and 9 and Corollary 4 are still valid for the mixed synchronization of modified chaotic financial systems described by (24) with .
Remark 11. In [24], a nonlinear control method was used to achieve synchronization for modified chaotic financial systems described by (24). However, our mixed synchronization criteria (Theorems 1 and 5 and Corollary 4) are derived by the linear feedback control.
5. Three Illustrated Examples
Example 1. Consider chaotic financial systems (1) and (2) with , , and . The initial conditions of (1) and (2) are , , , , , and , respectively. Figure 1 illustrates the chaotic attractor of chaotic system (1). From Figure 1, one can see that and for .
Due to , , and , one can use Theorem 5 to derive that and . Let . Figures 2 and 3 demonstrate the trajectories of systems (1) and (2), respectively. Figures 4, 5, and 6 illustrate trajectories , , and of system (6), respectively, which clearly show that (1) and (2) achieve mixed synchronization. The unit of time in Figures 4, 5, and 6 is the second.
Example 2. Consider two financial systems (1) and (2) with , , and and , , , , , and . The bounds of and are and for .
Due to , , , and , one can use Theorem 9 to derive that . Figure 7 demonstrates the trajectories of (6), which clearly illustrates that systems (1) and (2) achieve mixed synchronization. The unit of time in Figure 7 is the second.
Example 3. Consider the modified financial system described by (24) with , , , and which can be transformed to (1) with , , and . Consider (1) and (2) with , , and and , , , , , and . The bounds of and are and for .
Due to , , , and , one can use Theorem 5 to derive that and . One can choose and . Figure 8 demonstrates the trajectories of (6), which clearly shows that systems (1) and (2) achieve mixed synchronization. The unit of time in Figure 8 is the second.
6. Conclusions and Future Works
We have derived some mixed synchronization criteria for chaotic financial systems, in which the synchronization and antisynchronization coexist in chaotic financial systems by using linear feedback control, rather than nonlinear controls in the previous results. Moreover, we have obtained two mixed synchronization criteria with a single controller and without external controls, respectively. In addition, we have applied the mixed synchronization criteria and the control method to study the mixed synchronization for a class of modified chaotic financial systems. We have used three examples to illustrate the effectiveness of our derived results. In this paper, the synchronization and antisynchronization coexist in two identical financial systems with three dimensions. How to achieve the coexistence of synchronization and antisynchronization in two four-dimensional financial systems with mismatched parameters by using linear feedback control or nonlinear control is our research interest in the future.
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Acknowledgments
This paper is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61561023, the Key Project of Youth Science Fund of Jiangxi China under Grant 20133ACB21009, the project of CSC Jiangxi, and the project of Jiangxi E-Commerce High Level Engineering Technology Research Centre.