RT journal article T1 Chaotic finite difference operators A1 Murillo Arcila, Marina A1 Peris, Alfred A1 Vargas, Alvaro A2 Matemáticas K1 Devaney chaos K1 numerical methods K1 C0-semigroups K1 Toeplitz operators K1 Herzog spaces AB In this article we analyze the chaotic behaviour of finite difference operators associated to certain differential equations. Our examples range from numerical schemes for a birth-and-death model with proliferation to a class of second-order partial differential equations that includes the hyperbolic heat transfer equation, the telegraph equation and the wave equation. We provide sufficient conditions on the spatial and time steps of the scheme that guarantee chaos for the corresponding operators, and we compare them with the conditions needed to ensure chaotic analytical solutions. PB AIP SN 1089-7682 YR 2023 FD 2023 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35322 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35322 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 21-sep-2026