Transformation maps between different Poincare sections

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Let us have a dynamical system $(M, f)$ and some Poincare section, $P_1,..,P_n$. As far as I can understand, similar to what we are doing when we have only a single Poincare section, we can define maps $$f_{ij}(x_k) = x_{k+1}$$ that maps the point on the Poincare section $P_i$ to the corresponding point on $P_j$ which determined by $f$.

However, to find $x_{k+1}$, we first need to know in which Poincare section that $x_{k+1}$ will be so that we can use the corresponding map $f_{ij}$, but that seems awkward since the whole point of the analysis is to determine how will a given point evolve, so am I missing something in here ?

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Besides the issue of defining a single "transformation map", there is an issue of defining a map which one can iterate.

Given a map $f : X \to Y$, one can iterate $f$ if and only if the condition $\text{range}(f) \subset X$ holds. You simply cannot iterate a map which fails to satisfy that condition.

I imagine that your intent is that any two of the Poincaré sections $P_1,...,P_n$ are disjoint. Therefore, if you fix $i \ne j \in \{1,...,n\}$ then $P_i$ and $P_j$ are disjoint and the map $f_{ij} : P_i \to P_j$ cannot be iterated.

But another thing one can do is to take the union $P = P_1 \cup ... \cup P_n$ to be the domain of a Poincare map $f : P \to P$. In that case it makes perfect sense to iterate the map $f$.

This iteration could be broken down as follows. Consider $x \in P$. We have $x \in P_i$ for a unique $i$. Flowing forward from $x$, we stop at the first moment we arrive at a point $y \in P$. We have $y \in P_j$ for a unique $j$. Therefore in this situation we have $f(x)=f_{ij}(x)=y$.

However, one might notice that $j$ depends on $x$. Choosing a different $x' \in P_i$ and flowing forward and stopping at the first moment we arrive at a point $y' \in P$, we may have $y' \in P_{j'}$ for $j' \ne j$.

What this shows us is that the iteratable map $f : P \to P$ can, with care, be patched together from pieces of the maps $f_{ij}$, but nonetheless it does not make sense to iterate the individual maps $f_{ij}$ when $i \ne j$.