Bifurcation of periodic orbits emanated from a vertex in discontinuous planar systems

We discuss bifurcation of periodic orbits in discontinuous planar systems with discontinuities on finitely many straight lines intersecting at the origin and the unperturbed system has either a limit cycle or an annulus of periodic orbits. Assume that the unperturbed periodic orbits cross every switching line transversally exactly once. For the first case we give a condition for the persistence of the limit cycle. For the second case, we obtain the expression of the first order Melnikov function and establish sufficient conditions on the number of limit cycles bifurcate from the periodic annulus. Then we generalize our results to systems with discontinuities on finitely many smooth curves. As an application, we present a piecewise cubic system with 4 switching lines and show that the maximum number of limit cycles bifurcate from the periodic annulus can be affected by the position of the switching lines.     

Bifurcation of periodic orbits in a class of planar Filippov systems

In this paper we discuss the perturbations of a general planar Filippov system with exactly one switching line. When the system has a limit cycle, we give a condition for its persistence; when the system has an annulus of periodic orbits, we give a condition under which limit cycles are bifurcated from the annulus. We also further discuss the stability and bifurcations of a nonhyperbolic limit cycle. When the system has an annulus of periodic orbits, we show via an example how the number of limit cycles bifurcated from the annulus is affected by the switching.     

Homoclinic,heteroclinic and periodic orbits of singularly perturbed systems

The main aims of this paper are to study the persistence of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of the reduced systems on normally hyperbolic critical manifolds, and also the limit cycle bifurcations either from the homoclinic loop of the reduced systems or from a family of periodic orbits of the layer systems. For the persistence of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits, and the limit cycles bifurcating from a homolinic loop of the reduced systems, we provide a new and readily detectable method to characterize them compared with the usual Melnikov method when the reduced system forms a generalized rotated vector field. To determine the limit cycles bifurcating from the families of periodic orbits of the layer systems, we apply the averaging methods.We also provide two four-dimensional singularly perturbed differential systems, which have either heteroclinic or homoclinic orbits located on the slow manifolds and also three limit cycles bifurcating from the periodic orbits of the layer system.     

Singular limit cycle bifurcations to closed orbits and invariant tori

This paper investigates singular limit cycle bifurcations for a singularly perturbed system. Based on a series of transformations (the modified curvilinear coordinate, blow-up, and near-identity transformation) and bifurcation theory of periodic orbits and invariant tori, the bifurcations of closed orbits and invariant tori near singular limit cycles are discussed.     

Quasi‐Periodic Almost‐Collision Orbits in the Spatial Three‐Body Problem

In a system of particles, quasi‐periodic almost‐collision orbits are collisionless orbits along which two bodies become arbitrarily close to each other—the lower limit of their distance is zero but the upper limit is strictly positive—and are quasi‐periodic in a regularized system up to a change of time. Their existence was shown in the restricted planar circular three‐body problem by A.~Chenciner and J. Llibre, and in the planar three‐body problem by J. Féjoz. In the spatial three‐body problem, the existence of a set of positive measure of such orbits was predicted by C. Marchal. In this article, we present a proof of this fact.© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

三维系统周期轨道的分支

本文研究三维系统的一类非双曲周期轨道在小扰动下产生周期轨道的问题，并对一类较特殊的系统给出了判别周期轨道存在的具体条件。此外，还给出了具体的应用例子。     

Peakon and cuspon solutions of a generalized Camassa-Holm-Novikov equation

The bounded traveling wave solutions of a generalized Camassa-Holm-Novikov equation with $p=2$ and $p=3$ are derived via the dynamical system approach. The singular wave solutions including peakons and cuspons are obtained by the bifurcation analysis of the corresponding singular dynamical system and the orbits intersecting with or approaching the singular lines. The results show that the generalized Camassa-Holm-Novikov equation with $p=2$ and $p=3$ both admit smooth solitary wave, smooth periodic wave solutions, solitary peakons, periodic peakons, solitary cuspons and periodic cuspons as well. It is worth pointing out that the Novikov equation has no bounded traveling wave solutions with negative wave speed, but has a family of new periodic cuspons which are distinguished with the normal periodic cuspons for their discontinuous first-order derivatives at both maximum and minimum.     

Centers of quasi-homogeneous polynomial differential equations of degree three

We characterize the centers of the quasi-homogeneous planar polynomial differential systems of degree three. Such systems do not admit isochronous centers. At most one limit cycle can bifurcate from the periodic orbits of a center of a cubic homogeneous polynomial system using the averaging theory of first order.     

Global bifurcations near a degenerate heterodimensional cycle

This article is devoted to investigating the bifurcations of a heterodimensional cycle with orbit flip and inclination flip, which is a highly degenerate singular cycle. We show the persistence of the heterodimensional cycle and the existence of bifurcation surfaces for the homoclinic orbits or periodic orbits. It is worthy to mention that some new features produced by the degeneracies that the coexistence of heterodimensional cycles and multiple periodic orbits are presented as well, which is different from some known results in the literature. Moreover, an example is given to illustrate our results and clear up some doubts about the existence of the system which has a heterodimensional cycle with both orbit flip and inclination flip. Our strategy is based on moving frame, the fundamental solution matrix of linear variational system is chose to be an active local coordinate system along original heterodimensional cycle, which can clearly display the non-generic properties-``orbit flip" and ``inclination flip" for some sufficiently large time.     

周期参数扰动的T混沌系统周期轨道分析

本文研究了一类周期参数扰动的T混沌系统的周期轨道问题.利用次谐波Melnikov方法,获得了具有广义Hamilton结构的周期参数扰动的慢变系统的振荡周期轨道和旋转周期轨道.     

Periodic orbits for perturbations of piecewise linear systems

We consider the existence of periodic orbits in a class of three-dimensional piecewise linear systems. Firstly, we describe the dynamical behavior of a non-generic piecewise linear system which has two equilibria and one two-dimensional invariant manifold foliated by periodic orbits. The aim of this work is to study the periodic orbits of the continuum that persist under a piecewise linear perturbation of the system. In order to analyze this situation, we build a real function of real variable whose zeros are related to the limit cycles that remain after the perturbation. By using this function, we state some results of existence and stability of limit cycles in the perturbed system, as well as results of bifurcations of limit cycles. The techniques presented are similar to the Melnikov theory for smooth systems and the method of averaging.     

Periodic solutions of the restricted three-body problem for a small mass ratio

A plane circular restricted three body problem is considered for small values of the ratio of the masses μ of the main bodies. All the limit problems as μ → 0: the two-body problem, Hill's problem, the intermediate Hénon problem and the basic limit problem, are found using a Power Geometry. In each of them, solutions are isolated which are the limits of the periodic solutions of the restricted problem as μ → 0 and the limits of the families of periodic solutions (which are called generating families). Using the generating families in the case of small μ > 0, the families are studied which are started as the reverse (family h) and forward (family i) circular orbits of infinitesimal radius around the body of greater mass. It is shown that, as μ increases, there is a small change in the structure of family h but family i undergoes infinitely many self-bifurcations with the formation of an infinite number of closed subfamilies, each of which only exists in a certain range of values of μ. A theory of the formation of horseshoe-shaped orbits and orbits in the form of “tadpoles” is given, and the structure of the basic families containing periodic solution with these orbits is indicated.     

Snap-back repellers in non-smooth functions

In this work we consider the homoclinic bifurcations of expanding periodic points. After Marotto, when homoclinic orbits to expanding periodic points exist, the points are called snap-back-repellers. Several proofs of the existence of chaotic sets associated with such homoclinic orbits have been given in the last three decades. Here we propose a more general formulation of Marotto’s theorem, relaxing the assumption of smoothness, considering a generic piecewise smooth function, continuous or discontinuous. An example with a two-dimensional smooth map is given and one with a two-dimensional piecewise linear discontinuous map.     

一类一维阵列的孤波特征

该文研究了一类由二自由度可积哈密顿系统构成的一维阵列的行波解,发现在长波极限下,问题可约化为分析哈密顿系统在扰动下的同异宿轨道的情形．当无扰系统具有共振时,利用能量──相方法,得到该系统存在同、异宿到不动点和周期轨的充分条件,在该条件下相应地一维阵列存在一组具有孤波特征的行波,同时给出了一个Ｎ脉冲孤立子波的例子．     

Method for Computer Simulation of Chaotic and Complex Periodic Oscillations

The possibility of constructing chaotic and complex periodic orbits of desired configurations is demonstrated on one-dimensional discontinuous maps. With appropriately located discontinuity, these maps can generate a rich selection of specific orbits with long laminar segments. A simple method is proposed to determine the features of the orbit obtained. This technique, applied to special maps with a horizontal linear branch, allows us to generate a great variety of stable periodic orbits with a specified future by only small variations of the map control parameter.     

Limit cycles and Lie symmetries

Given a planar vector field U which generates the Lie symmetry of some other vector field X, we prove a new criterion to control the stability of the periodic orbits of U. The problem is linked to a classical problem proposed by A.T. Winfree in the seventies about the existence of isochrons of limit cycles (the question suggested by the study of biological clocks), already answered by Guckenheimer using a different terminology. We apply our criterion to give upper bounds of the number of limit cycles for some families of vector fields as well as to provide a class of vector fields with a prescribed number of hyperbolic limit cycles. Finally we show how this procedure solves the problem of the hyperbolicity of periodic orbits in problems where other criteria, like the classical one of the divergence, fail.     

Bifurcation of limit cycles from a 4-dimensional center in 1:n resonance

We study the bifurcation of limit cycles from the periodic orbits of a linear differential system in R⁴ in resonance 1:n perturbed inside a class of piecewise linear differential systems, which appear in a natural way in control theory. Our main result shows that at most 1 limit cycle can bifurcate using expansion of the displacement function up to first order with respect to a small parameter. This upper bound is reached. For proving this result we use the averaging theory in a form where the differentiability of the system is not needed.     

Systematic Computer Assisted Proofs of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems

The numerical study of Dynamical Systems leads to obtain invariant objects of the systems such as periodic orbits, invariant tori, attractors and so on, that helps to the global understanding of the problem. In this paper we focus on the rigorous computation of periodic orbits and their distribution on the phase space, which configures the so called skeleton of the system. We use Computer Assisted Proof techniques to make a rigorous proof of the existence and the stability of families of periodic orbits in two-degrees of freedom Hamiltonian systems, which provide rigorous skeletons of periodic orbits. To that goal we show how to prove the existence and stability of a huge set of discrete initial conditions of periodic orbits, and later, how to prove the existence and stability of continuous families of periodic orbits. We illustrate the approach with two paradigmatic problems: the Hénon–Heiles Hamiltonian and the Diamagnetic Kepler problem.     

On quasi-weakly almost periodic points

The core problem of dynamical systems is to study the asymptotic behaviors of orbits and their topological structures. It is well known that the orbits with certain recurrence and generating ergodic (or invariant) measures are important, such orbits form a full measure set for all invariant measures of the system, its closure is called the measure center of the system. To investigate this set, Zhou introduced the notions of weakly almost periodic point and quasi-weakly almost periodic point in 1990s, and presented some open problems on complexity of discrete dynamical systems in 2004. One of the open problems is as follows: for a quasi-weakly almost periodic point but not weakly almost periodic, is there an invariant measure generated by its orbit such that the support of this measure is equal to its minimal center of attraction (a closed invariant set which attracts its orbit statistically for every point and has no proper subset with this property)? Up to now, the problem remains open. In this paper, we construct two points in the one-sided shift system of two symbols, each of them generates a sub-shift system. One gives a positive answer to the question above, the other answers in the negative. Thus we solve the open problem completely. More important, the two examples show that a proper quasi-weakly almost periodic orbit behaves very differently with weakly almost periodic orbit.     

On homoclinic bifurcation emanating from Takens-Bogdanov points in Hamiltonian systems

The paper is devoted to studying the bifurcation of periodic and homoclinic orbits in a 2n-dimensional Hamiltonian system with 1 parameter from a TB-point (Hamiltonian saddle node). In addition to the proof of existence, the paper gives an expansion formula of the bifurcating homoclinic orbits. With the help of center manifold reduction and a blow up transformation, the problem is focused on studying a planar Hamiltonian system, the proof for the perturbed homoclinic and periodic orbits is elementary in the sense that it uses only implicit function arguments. Two applications to travelling waves in PDEs are shown.