# Wrong largest Lyapunov exponent?

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I’m calculating the Lyapunov exponents of the Rössler oscillator using chaostools lyapunovspectrum, but I’m getting a weird result:  
For the fixed point, the largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) is smaller than the LLE for the periodic case.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Chaotic case (b=0.2):  
[0.07292829133282637, -2.236844767689135e-5, -5.144998974835244]  
Periodic case (b=1.2):  
[-2.9536474906300005e-5, -0.11551781455039102, -5.157491428530996]  
Fixed point (b=2.0):  
[2.213499351555786e-6, -0.08642708221620443, -5.204999474514104]

Code:

```julia

using ChaosTools

function rossler_rule(u, p, t)
    α = p[1]; β = p[2]; γ = p[3]
    du1 = -u[2] - u[3]
    du2 = u[1] + α*u[2]
    du3 = β + u[3] * (u[1] - γ)
    return SVector{3}(du1, du2, du3)
end

function ross_jacob(u, p, t)
    α = p[1]; β = p[2]; γ = p[3]
    row1 = SVector(0,-1,-1)
    row2 = SVector(1,α,0)
    row3 = SVector(u[3],0,u[1]-γ)
    return vcat(row1', row2', row3')
end

b_value = parse(Float64,ARGS[1])

ross = CoupledODEs(rossler_rule, fill(6.0,3), [0.2, b_value, 5.7])
tangent = TangentDynamicalSystem(ross; J = ross_jacob)
λ = lyapunovspectrum(tangent, 10000; Δt = 1, Ttr=10000,show_progress=true)
println(λ)

```

Image from [Rössler attractor - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6ssler_attractor) :

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/a/0/a05005e7e63a186b7c3158bb1e2476dffc32d14a.png)