Mixed dynamics: elements of theory and examples

The main goal of the paper is to present recent results obtained in the mathematical theory of dynamical chaos and related to the discovery of its new, third, form, the so-called mixed dynamics. This type of chaos is very different from its two classical forms, conservative and dissipative chaos, and its main difference is that attractors and repellers can intersect without coinciding. The main results of the paper are related to construction of theoretical schemes aimed to mathematical justification of this phenomenon using the most general methods of topological dynamics. The paper also provides a number of examples of systems from applications in which mixed dynamics is observed. It is shown that such dynamics can be of different types, from close to conservative to strongly dissipative, and also that it can arise as a result of various bifurcation mechanisms.