Constructing a Chaotic System with Any Number of Attractors

Applying some transformation to an autonomous system, we obtain a new system, which might keep the dynamical behavior of the original system or generate different dynamics. But this is often accompanied by the appearance of discontinuous points, where the vector field for the new system is not continuous at these points. We discuss the effects of the discontinuous points, and provide two methods to construct systems with any preassigned number of chaotic attractors via some transformation. The first one does not change the geometric structure of the attractors, since the discontinuous points are out of the basin of attraction. The second one might make the new systems have different dynamics, like multiscroll chaotic attractors, or infinitely many chaotic attractors. These results illustrate that both the equilibria and the discontinuous points affect the global dynamics.