Asymmetry Coefficients as Indicators of Chaos: Hyperchaotic Qi System

Statistical properties of the hyperchaotic Qi system are studied. The theory, recently formulated and applied for the damped driven pendulum, is used in this investigation. Asymmetry coefficients, related to the statistical moments of distributions composed from the time-series, are shown to behave in a different way for periodic, chaotic and hyperchaotic solutions and are proposed as indicators of chaos and hyperchaos.