New type of heteroclinic tangency in two-dimensional maps

A new mechanism of heteroclinic tangency is investigated by using two-dimensional maps. First, it is numerically shown that the unstable manifold from a hyperbolic fixed point accumulates to the stable manifold of a nearby period-2 hyperbolic point in a piecewise linear map and that the unstable manifold from a hyperbolic fixed point accumulates to the accumulation of the stable manifold of a nearby period-2 hyperbolic point in a cubic map. Second, a theorem on the impossibility of heteroclinic tangency (in the usual sense) is given for a particular type of map. The notions ofdirect andasymptotic heteroclinic tangencies are introduced and heteroclinic tangency is classified into four types.     

Heteroclinic bifurcations and chaotic transport in the two-harmonic standard map

We study a two-parameter family of standard maps: the so-called two-harmonic family. In particular, we study the areas of lobes formed by the stable and unstable manifolds. Variational methods are used to find heteroclinic orbits and their action. A specific pair of heteroclinic orbits is used to define a difference in action function and to study bifurcations in the stable and unstable manifolds. Using this idea, two phenomena are studied: the change of orientation of lobes and tangential intersections of stable and unstable manifolds.     

一个分段Sprott系统及其混沌机理分析

提出了一个分段Sprott系统,对其混沌机理进行了分析.根据Shilnikov定理,在满足异宿轨道基本特性、Shilnikov不等式和特征方程条件下,通过寻找该系统中由不稳定流形、异宿点和稳定流形三个几何不变集上所形成的一条异宿轨道,在分段Sprott系统中导出了存在异宿轨道时该系统中各个参数应符合的条件, 并找到了一组对应的实参数,由此证明了异宿轨道的存在性.最后,根据这组对应的实参数,进行了电路设计与实验验证. 关键词： 分段Sprott系统 Shilnikov定理 异宿轨道 电路实验     

Noise and O(1) amplitude effects on heteroclinic cycles

The dynamics of structurally stable heteroclinic cycles connecting fixed points with one-dimensional unstable manifolds under the influence of noise is analyzed. Fokker-Planck equations for the evolution of the probability distribution of trajectories near heteroclinic cycles are solved. The influence of the magnitude of the stable and unstable eigenvalues at the fixed points and of the amplitude of the added noise on the location and shape of the probability distribution is determined. As a consequence, the jumping of solution trajectories in and out of invariant subspaces of the deterministic system can be explained. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.     

Primary resonant optimal control for nested homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations in single-dof nonlinear oscillators

A unified control theorem is presented in this paper, whose aim is to suppress the transversal intersections of stable and unstable manifolds of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits in the Poincarè map embedding in system dynamics. Based on the control theorem, a primary resonant optimal control technique (PROCT for short) is applied to a general single-dof nonlinear oscillator. The novelty of this technique is able to obtain the unified analytical expressions of the control gain and the control parameters for suppressing the homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations, where the control gain can guarantee that the control region where the homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations do not occur can be enlarged as much as possible at least cost. The technique is applied to a nonlinear oscillator with a pair of nested homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits. By the PROCT, the transversal intersections of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits can be suppressed, respectively. The hopping phenomenon that there coexist two kinds of chaotic attractors of Duffing-type and pendulum-type can be suppressed. On the contrary, if the first amplitude coefficient is greater than the critical heteroclinic bifurcation value, then another degenerate hopping behavior of chaos will take place again. Therefore, the phenomenon of hopping is the dominant type of chaos in this oscillator, whose suppressing or inducing is admissible from the points of practical and theoretical view.     

Bifurcation to heteroclinic cycles and sensitivity in three and four coupled phase oscillators

We study the bifurcation and dynamical behaviour of the system of N globally coupled identical phase oscillators introduced by Hansel, Mato and Meunier, in the cases N=3 and N=4. This model has been found to exhibit robust ‘slow switching’ oscillations that are caused by the presence of robust heteroclinic attractors. This paper presents a bifurcation analysis of the system in an attempt to better understand the creation of such attractors. We consider bifurcations that occur in a system of identical oscillators on varying the parameters in the coupling function. These bifurcations preserve the permutation symmetry of the system. We then investigate the implications of these bifurcations for the sensitivity to detuning (i.e. the size of the smallest perturbations that give rise to loss of frequency locking).For N=3 we find three types of heteroclinic bifurcation that are codimension-one with symmetry. On varying two parameters in the coupling function we find three curves giving (a) an S₃-transcritical homoclinic bifurcation, (b) a saddle-node/heteroclinic bifurcation and (c) a Z₃-heteroclinic bifurcation. We also identify several global bifurcations with symmetry that organize the bifurcation diagram; these are codimension-two with symmetry.For N=4 oscillators we determine many (but not all) codimension-one bifurcations with symmetry, including those that lead to a robust heteroclinic cycle. A robust heteroclinic cycle is stable in an open region of parameter space and unstable in another open region. Furthermore, we verify that there is a subregion where the heteroclinic cycle is the only attractor of the system, while for other parts of the phase plane it can coexist with stable limit cycles. We finish with a discussion of bifurcations that appear for this coupling function and general N, as well as for more general coupling functions.     

Collections of heteroclinic cycles in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

We study the Kuramoto-Sivashinky equation with periodic boundary conditions in the case of low-dimensional behavior. We analyze the bifurcations that occur in a six-dimensional (6D) approximation of its inertial manifold. We mainly focus on the attracting and structurally stable heteroclinic connections that arise for these parameter values. We reanalyze the ones that were previously described via a 4D reduction to the center-unstable manifold (Ambruster et al., 1988, 1989). We also find a parameter region for which a manifold of structurally stable heteroclinic cycles exist. The existence of such a manifold is responsible for an intermittent behavior which has some features of unpredictability.     

Cooperation within triplets in the rock-paper-scissors game

We study a population involved in a cyclic game of three strategies – the rock-paper-scissors game – whose agents interact through groups of three individuals (triplets), considering the possibility that two weak agents cooperate and beat a strong one. In a wide range of parameters the system presents a stable heteroclinic cycle, which implies that in a finite population some of the strategies become extinct and others survive. We find that the cooperation within triplets only benefits the survival of the strategy if the cooperation probability is above a certain threshold. We study the survival probabilities of the different strategies as a function of the cooperation parameters through a analytic approximation and compare with simulations, obtaining a good agreement. Results are generalizable to other systems with heteroclinic cycles.     

A hierarchical heteroclinic network

We consider a heteroclinic network in the framework of winnerless competition of species. It consists of two levels of heteroclinic cycles. On the lower level, the heteroclinic cycle connects three saddles, each representing the survival of a single species; on the higher level, the cycle connects three such heteroclinic cycles, in which nine species are involved. We show how to tune the predation rates in order to generate the long time scales on the higher level from the shorter time scales on the lower level. Moreover, when we tune a single bifurcation parameter, first the motion along the lower and next along the higher-level heteroclinic cycles are replaced by a heteroclinic cycle between 3-species coexistence-fixed points and by a 9-species coexistence-fixed point, respectively. We also observe a similar impact of additive noise. Beyond its usual role of preventing the slowing-down of heteroclinic trajectories at small noise level, its increasing strength can replace the lower-level heteroclinic cycle by 3-species coexistence fixed-points, connected by an effective limit cycle, and for even stronger noise the trajectories converge to the 9-species coexistence-fixed point. The model has applications to systems in which slow oscillations modulate fast oscillations with sudden transitions between the temporary winners.     

New Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Solutions for Zakharov System

A new type of homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions, i.e. homoclinic and heteroclinic breather solutions, for Zakharov system are obtained using extended homoclinic test and two-soliton methods, respectively. Moreover, the homoclinic and heteroclinic structure with local oscillation and mechanical feature different from homoclinic and heterocliunic solutions are investigated. Result shows complexity of dynamics for complex nonlinear evolution system. Moreover, the similarities and differences between homoclinic (heteroclinic) breather and homoclinic (heteroclinic) tube are exhibited. These results show that the diversity of the structures of homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions.     

New Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Solutions for Zakharov System

A new type of homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions, i.e. homoclinic and heteroclinic breather solutions, for Zakharov system are obtained using extended homoclinic test and two-soliton methods, respectively. Moreover, the homoclinic and heteroclinic structure with local oscillation and mechanical feature different from homoclinic and heterocliunic solutions are investigated. Result shows complexity of dynamics for complex nonlinear evolution system. Moreover, the similarities and differences between homoclinic (heteroclinic) breather and homoclinic (heteroclinic) tube are exhibited. These results show that the diversity of the structures of homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions.     

Homoclinic (Heteroclinic) Orbit of Complex Dynamical System and Spiral Structure

Starting from iterated systems, it is shown that the homoclinic (heteroclinic) orbit is a kind of spiral structure. The emphasis is laid to show that there are homoclinic or heteroclinic orbits in complex discrete and continuous systems, and these homoclinic or heteroclinic orbits are some kind of spiral structure.     

Stabilizing Chaos in the rf-Driven Josephson Junction

The models of rf-driven Josephson junctions are investigated as the perturbed systems.It is shown that the heteroclinic orbits corrected by perturbations are stable if some relations between the initial constants and system parameters are satisfied, which leads to Melnikov chaos. To stabilize chaos one has to make the control parameters fitting the relations.The result is compared with the previous numerical work and a good agreement is found.     

Novel homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions for the 2D complex cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions are two important concepts that are used to investigate the complex properties of nonlinear evolutionary equations. In this Letter, we perform hyperbolic and linear stability analysis, and prove the existence of homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions for two-dimensional cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation with periodic boundary condition and even constraint. Then, using the Hirota's bilinear transformation, we find the closed-form homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions. Moreover, we find that the homoclinic tubes and two families of heteroclinic solutions are asymptotic to a periodic cycle in one dimension.     

Heteroclinic dynamics in a model of Faraday waves in a square container

We study periodic orbits associated with heteroclinic bifurcations in a model of the Faraday system for containers with square cross-section and single-frequency forcing. These periodic orbits correspond to quasiperiodic surface waves in the physical system. The heteroclinic bifurcations are related to a continuum of heteroclinic connections in the integrable Hamiltonian limit, some of which persist in the presence of small damping. The dynamics in the neighborhood of one of the heteroclinic bifurcations are examined in detail using approximate Poincaré maps, with predictions that agree with numerical computations. The results suggest a great richness of possible dynamics of Faraday waves even in simple geometries and with single-frequency forcing.     

Global dynamics of a pipe conveying pulsating fluid in primary parametrical resonance: Analytical and numerical results from the nonlinear wave equation

The chaotic dynamics of nonlinear waves in the harmonic-forced fluid-conveying pipe in primary parametrical resonance, is explored analytically and numerically. The multiple scale method is applied to obtain an equivalent nonlinear wave equation from the complicated nonlinear governing equation describing the fluid conveyed in a pipe. With the Melnikov method, the persistence of a heteroclinic structure is shown to be satisfied and its condition is given in functional form. Similarly, for the heteroclinic orbit, using geometric analysis, a condition function of the stable manifold is derived for the orbit to return to the stable manifold from the saddle point. The persistent homoclinic structures and threshold of chaos in the Smale-horseshoe sense are obtained for the fluid-conveying pipe under both conditions, indicating how the external excitation amplitude can change substantially the global dynamics of the fluid conveyed in the pipe. A numerical approach was used to test the prediction from theory. The impact of the external excitation amplitude on the nonlinear wave in the fluid-conveying pipe was also studied from numerical simulations. Both theoretical predications and numerical simulations attest to the complex chaotic motion of fluid-conveying pipes.     

Exploiting the Hamiltonian structure of a neural field model

We study the unexpected disappearance of stable homoclinic orbits in regions of parameter space in a neural field model with one spatial dimension. The usual approach of using numerical continuation techniques and local bifurcation theory is insufficient to explain the qualitative change in the model’s behaviour. The lack of robustness of the model to small perturbations in parameters is surprising, and the phenomenon may be of broader significance than just our model. By exploiting the Hamiltonian structure of the time-independent system, we develop a numerical technique with which we discover that a small, separate solution curve exists for a range of parameter values. As the firing rate function steepens, the small curve causes the main curve to break and stable homoclinic orbits are destroyed in a region of parameter space. Numerically, we use level set analysis to find that a codimension-one heteroclinic bifurcation occurs at the terminating ends of the solution curves. By replacing the firing rate function with a step function, we show analytically that the bifurcation is related to the value of the firing threshold. We also show the existence of heteroclinic orbits at the breakpoints using a travelling front analysis in the time-dependent system.     

Heteroclinic cycles in a new class of four-dimensional discontinuous piecewise affine systems

It is a huge challenge to give an existence theorem for heteroclinic cycles in the high-dimensional discontinuous piecewise systems(DPSs). This paper first provides a new class of four-dimensional(4 D) two-zone discontinuous piecewise affine systems(DPASs), and then gives a useful criterion to ensure the existence of heteroclinic cycles in the systems by rigorous mathematical analysis. To illustrate the feasibility and efficiency of the theory, two numerical examples, exhibiting chaotic behaviors in a small neighborhood of heteroclinic cycles, are discussed.     

A variational approach to connecting orbits in nonlinear dynamical systems

We propose a variational method for determining homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits including spiral-shaped ones in nonlinear dynamical systems. Starting from a suitable initial curve, a homotopy evolution equation is used to approach a true connecting orbit. The procedure is an extension of a variational method that has been used previously for locating cycles, and avoids the need for linearization in search of simple connecting orbits. Examples of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for typical dynamical systems are presented. In particular, several heteroclinic orbits of the steady-state Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation are found, which display interesting topological structures, closely related to those of the corresponding periodic orbits.     

Chaos in the second—order autonomous Birkhoff system with a heteroclinic circle

Chaotic behaviour in a second-order autonomous Birkhoff system with a heteroclinic circle under weakly periodic perturbation is studied using the Melnikov method.The equations of heteroclinic orbits and the criteria for chaos are given.One example is also presented to illustrate the application of the results.