Quasistable states in globally coupled tent map systems.

The characteristics of long lasting but not perpetual chaotic states appear in a wide parameter region in a globally coupled overcritical tent map system are exhibited. The lifetime of the transient state has essential relevance with the system size. In some parameter region, the lifetime saturates at a certain level, while in another region it seems to diverge as the size of the system grows. In order to uncover the dynamical structures in large system size limit, the dynamics of one-body distribution is investigated as an idealized model for the infinitely large coupled map system. Obtained numerical results indicate the correspondence between the characteristics of long transient behavior in finite size system and that of the attractor or the ruin of attractor in the idealized model.