Abstract
Abstract The study of the chaotic dynamics in fractional-order discrete-time systems has received great attention in the past years. In this paper, we propose a new 2D fractional map with the simplest algebraic structure reported to date and with an infinite line of equilibrium. The conceived map possesses an interesting property not explored in literature so far, i.e., it is characterized, for various fractional-order values, by the coexistence of various kinds of periodic, chaotic and hyper-chaotic attractors. Bifurcation diagrams, computation of the maximum Lyapunov exponents, phase plots and 0–1 test are reported, with the aim to analyse the dynamics of the 2D fractional map as well as to highlight the coexistence of initial-boosting chaotic and hyperchaotic attractors in commensurate and incommensurate order. Results show that the 2D fractional map has an infinite number of coexistence symmetrical chaotic and hyper-chaotic attractors. Finally, the complexity of the fractional-order map is investigated in detail via approximate entropy.