Chaos synchroniztion by function coupling in a class of nonlinear dynamical system

To realize the synchronization of nonlinear dynamical system, the general control method is unidirectional linear coupling. Research on function coupling of chaos synchronization is not enough, so there arises a question: for nonlinear dynamical system, if chaos synchronization is realized by linear coupling, whether can any type of function coupling always make the system go to chaos synchronization? In this paper, a class of nonlinear dynamical system is considered and the relation between linear coupling and function coupling is investigated. It is proved that if linear coupling can make chaos synchronization, then any function satisfying some conditions can do so too. The condition is given and proved. Finally for Duffing system, three coupling functions are used to prove the analytical result. The simulation results show that the conclusion is correct.