GENERALIZED SYNCHRONIZATION, FREQUENCY-LOCKING AND PHASE-LOCKING OF COUPLED SINE CIRCLE MAPS
Applying invariant manifold theorem, we study the existence of generalized synchronization of a coupled system, with local systems being different sine circle maps. We specify a range of parameters for which the coupled system achieves generalized synchronization. We also investigate the relation between generalized synchronization, predictability and equivalence of dynamical systems. If the parameters are restricted in the specified range, then all the subsystems are topologically equivalent, and each subsystem is predictable from any other subsystem. Moreover, these subsystems are frequency locked even if the frequencies are greatly different in the absence of coupling. If the local systems are identical without coupling, then the widths of the phase-locked intervals of the coupled system are the same as those of the individual map and are independent of the coupling strength.