Romero-Bastida M, Pazó Diego, López Juan M
SEPI ESIME-Culhuacán, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Distrito Federal 04430, Mexico.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2012 Feb;85(2 Pt 2):026210. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.026210. Epub 2012 Feb 21.
We scrutinize the reliability of covariant and Gram-Schmidt Lyapunov vectors for capturing hydrodynamic Lyapunov modes (HLMs) in one-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices. We show that, in contrast with previous claims, HLMs do exist for any energy density, so that strong chaos is not essential for the appearance of genuine (covariant) HLMs. In contrast, Gram-Schmidt Lyapunov vectors lead to misleading results concerning the existence of HLMs in the case of weak chaos.