Complex dynamics of a three-dimensional continuous-time autonomous system

Results in a recent paper, concerning a novel three-dimensional chaotic system consisting of a particular set of three autonomous first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations, are quite extended. We report on numerically computed parameter plane plots for a six-parameter system. The dynamical behavior of each point is characterized by using Lyapunov exponents, or by counting the number of maxima of one of the variables, in one complete trajectory in the phase-space. Each of these diagrams indicates parameter values for which chaos or periodicity may be found, i.e., each one of them shows delimited regions of both chaos and periodicity. Moreover, we show that several of these parameter planes display self-organized periodic structures, embedded in a chaotic region.