The phase and anti-phase synchronization of chaotic systems have gained significant interest because of their relevance to various fields and scenarios. These include lasers [
1,
2], complex networks [
3], electrical circuits [
4], memory processes [
5], optical parametric oscillators [
6], human cortex [
7], fluids [
8], neuroscience [
9], ecological systems [
10], coupled chemical oscillators [
11], and the heartbeat and respiration cycle [
12]. Many techniques to study the phase synchronization for the same dimension were introduced such as complete phase synchronization [
13,
14], anti-phase synchronization [
14], modified projective phase synchronization [
15] and combination-combination phase synchronization [
16]. On the other hand, different kinds of synchronization were introduced in the literature [
17,
18] and the references therein. It is widely acknowledged that real-world models exhibit nonlinearity as a fundamental characteristic. Consequently, the dynamics of these models are mathematically depicted using nonlinear ODEs [
19,
20,
21]. Kpomahou
et al. [
22] introduced the real
Rayleigh-
van der Pol-
Duffing
oscillator (RVDO) as:
where the expression
represents the components of linear and nonlinear stiffness that contribute to the linear and nonlinear parametric excitation,
is the hybrid Rayleigh-Van der Pol damping force and
is the external excitation force,
w and
represent the two frequencies of the force that is modulated in amplitude, while
,
h,
e stand for the degree of modulation, the unmodulated carrier amplitude and a small quantity characterizing the smallness of the dissipative and forced terms, respectively. If one put
, the two first order ordinary differential equations of oscillator (
1) are:
If we consider that
and
,
are complex variables, then the 4D real form of RVDO (
2) is:
For the choice
, the autonomous form of RVDO (
3) is gives as:
This paper introduces hyperchaotic non-autonomous and autonomous complex Rayleigh-van der Pol-Duffing oscillators (
3) and (
4), respectively. We investigate the basic dynamics for these oscillators including dissipation, symmetry, fixed points and their stability. Using the Lyapunov exponents [
23], we prove that models (
3) and (
4) have hyperchaotic solutions. The paper proposes, also, a scheme utilizing an active control technique based on Lyapunov stability analysis to achieve phase synchronization (PS) and antiphase synchronization (APS) for different dimension models. According to the literature, these kinds of synchronization are a generalization of several other forms [
14,
15].
This paper is organized as follows:
Section 1 contains the dynamics of the proposed complex oscillators (
3-
4) including fixed points and their stability, dissipation, symmetry and chaotic behavior. In
Section 2, we introduce a scheme to achieve PS and APS based on active control technique and Lyapunov stability analysis.
Section 3 and
Section 4 deal with illustrative examples for PS and APS, respectively.
Section 5 presents our conclusions.