Power law asymptotics in the creation of strange attractors in the quasi-periodically forced quadratic family

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Let Φ be a quasi-periodically forced quadratic map, where the rotation constant ω is a Diophantine irrational. A strange non-chaotic attractor (SNA) is an invariant (under Φ) attracting graph of a nowhere continuous measurable function ψ from the circle T to [0,1]. This paper investigates how a smooth attractor degenerates into a strange one, as a parameter β approaches a critical value β₀, and the asymptotics behind the bifurcation of the attractor from smooth to strange. In our model, the cause of the strange attractor is a so-called torus collision, whereby an attractor collides with a repeller. Our results show that the asymptotic minimum distance between the two colliding invariant curves decreases linearly in the parameter β, as β approaches the critical parameter value β₀ from below. Furthermore, we have been able to show that the asymptotic growth of the supremum of the derivative of the attracting graph is asymptotically bounded from both sides by a constant times the reciprocal of the square root of the minimum distance above.