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In this paper, we describe a periodically-forced oscillator with spatially-periodic damping. This system has an infinite number of coexisting nested attractors, including limit cycles, attracting tori, and strange attractors. We are aware of no similar example in the literature.
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Sprott, J.C., Jafari, S., Khalaf, A.J.M. et al. Megastability: Coexistence of a countable infinity of nested attractors in a periodically-forced oscillator with spatially-periodic damping. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 226, 1979–1985 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70037-1
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