(1) Institut f ür Reine und Angewandte Mathematik der RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany;(2) Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Abstract:
A method is sketched to determine the presence of non-degenerate Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations in three-degree-of-freedom systems by putting the bifurcation into standard form. Detailed computations are performed for the non-trivial example of the 3D Hénon–Heiles family. After a careful formulation of the local once reduced system in terms of properly chosen invariants the system can be compared to the standard form by the application of singularity theoretic results.