A note on homoclinic or heteroclinic orbits for the generalized Hénon map

An important problem in a given dynamical system is to determine the existence of a homoclinic orbit. We improve the results of Qin and Xiao [Nonlinearity, 20 (2007), 2305–2317], who present some sufficient conditions for the existence of a homoclinic/heteroclinic orbit for the generalized H´enon map. Moreover, an algorithm is presented to locate these homoclinic orbits.     

Multibump solutions for discrete periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equations

In this paper, we study the existence of multibump solutions for discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations with periodic potentials. We first reduce the existence of multibump homoclinic solutions to the existence of an isolated homoclinic solution with a nontrivial critical group. Then, we study the existence of homoclinics with nontrivial critical groups for both superlinear and asymptotically linear discrete periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equations, and we provide simple sufficient conditions for the existence of homoclinics with nontrivial critical groups in the positive definite case. As an application, we get, without any symmetry assumptions, infinitely many geometrically distinct homoclinic solutions with exponential decay at infinity.     

Homoclinic orbits for second order nonlinear <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian difference equations

The paper proves the existence of nontrivial homoclinic orbits for second order nonlinear p-Laplacian difference equations without assumptions on periodicity using the critical point theory. Moreover, if the nonlinearity is an odd function, the existence of an unbounded sequence of nontrivial homoclinic orbits is proved.     

Homoclinic Orbits of Nonlinear Functional Difference Equations

In this paper, by using the critical point theory, we obtain the existence of a nontrivial homoclinic orbit which decays exponentially at infinity for nonlinear difference equations containing both advance and retardation without any periodic assumptions. Moreover, if the nonlinearity is an odd function, the existence of an unbounded sequence of nontrivial homoclinic orbits which decay exponentially at infinity is obtained.      

Chaos in PDEs and Lax Pairs of Euler Equations

Recently, the author and collaborators have developed a systematic program for proving the existence of homoclinic orbits in partial differential equations. Two typical forms of homoclinic orbits thus obtained are: (1) transversal homoclinic orbits, (2) Silnikov homoclinic orbits. Around the transversal homoclinic orbits in infinite-dimensional autonomous systems, the author was able to prove the existence of chaos through a shadowing lemma. Around the Silnikov homoclinic orbits, the author was able to prove the existence of chaos through a horseshoe construction.Very recently, there has been a breakthrough by the author in finding Lax pairs for Euler equations of incompressible inviscid fluids. Further results have been obtained by the author and collaborators.     

Bifurcation of Homoclinic Orbits with Saddle-Center Equilibrium

In this paper, the authors develop new global perturbation techniques for detecting the persistence of transversal homoclinic orbits in a more general nondegenerated system with action-angle variable. The unperturbed system is assumed to have saddle-center type equilibrium whose stable and unstable manifolds intersect in one dimensional manifold, and does not have to be completely integrable or near-integrable. By constructing local coordinate systems near the unperturbed homoclinic orbit, the conditions of existence of transversal homoclinic orbit are obtained, and the existence of periodic orbits bifurcated from homoclinic orbit is also considered.     

Variational Approach to Homoclinic Solutions for Fractional Hamiltonian Systems

In this paper, we discuss the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for fractional Hamiltonian systems with left and right Liouville–Weyl fractional derivatives. Sufficient conditions ensuring the existence of an unbounded sequence of homoclinic solutions for the given problem are obtained via variational approach.     

Analysis of a Shil’nikov Type Homoclinic Bifurcation

The bifurcation associated with a homoclinic orbit to saddle-focus including a pair of pure imaginary eigenvalues is investigated by using related homoclinic bifurcation theory. It is proved that, in a neighborhood of the homoclinic bifurcation value, there are countably infinite saddle-node bifurcation values, period-doubling bifurcation values and double-pulse homoclinic bifurcation values. Also, accompanied by the Hopf bifurcation, the existence of certain homoclinic connections to the periodic orbit is proved.     

Periodic and homoclinic solutions generated by impulses for asymptotically linear and sublinear Hamiltonian system

In this paper, we get the existence of periodic and homoclinic solutions for a class of asymptotically linear or sublinear Hamiltonian systems with impulsive conditions via variational methods. However, without impulses, there is no homoclinic or periodic solution for the system considered in this paper. Moreover, our results can be used to study the existence of periodic and homoclinic solutions of difference equations.     

A complete bifurcation diagram of nonlocal bifurcations of singular points in the Lorenz system

For the system of Lorenz equations in the parameter space we construct a complete bifurcation diagram of all homoclinic and heteroclinic separatrix contours of singular points that exist in the system. These constructs include the existence surface of a homoclinic butterfly, the existence half-surface of homoclinic loops of saddle-focus separatrices, and the existence curve of a heteroclinic separatrix contour joining a saddle-node with two saddle-foci.     

Melnikov方法和圆型平面限制性三体问题的横截同宿研究*

本文对由两自由度近可积哈密顿系统经非正则变换而得到的,具有高阶不动点的非哈密顿系统给出了判别横截同宿轨和横截异宿轨存在性的两条判据。对原二体质量比很小时近可积圆型平面限制性三体问题,采用本文判据证明存在横截同宿轨,从而存在横截同宿穿插现象;还在一定假设下证明了存在横截异宿轨;并给出了全局定性相图。     

Exponential trichotomy and homoclinic bifurcation with saddle-center equilibrium

In this paper the bifurcation of a homoclinic orbit is studied for an ordinary differential equation with periodic perturbation. Exponential trichotomy theory with the method of Lyapunov–Schmidt is used to obtain some sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of homoclinic solutions and periodic solutions for this problem. Some known results are extended.     

Bifurcation Analysis of the Multiple Flips Homoclinic Orbit

A high-codimension homoclinic bifurcation is considered with one orbit flip and two inclination flips accompanied by resonant principal eigenvalues. A local active coordinate system in a small neighborhood of homoclinic orbit is introduced. By analysis of the bifurcation equation, the authors obtain the conditions when the original flip homoclinic orbit is kept or broken. The existence and the existence regions of several double periodic orbits and one triple periodic orbit bifurcations are proved. Moreover, the complicated homoclinic-doubling bifurcations are found and expressed approximately.     

Bifurcation of degenerate homoclinics

We analyze the continuation and bifurcation of homoclinic orbits near a given degenerate homoclinic orbit. We show that the existence of such degenerate homoclinic orbit is a codimension three phenomenon, and that generically the set of parametervalues at which a nearby homoclinic exists forms a codimension one surface which shows a singularity of Whitney umbrella type at the critical parametervalue. The line of self-intersecting points of such surface corresponds to systems which have two nearby homoclinics.     

CODIMENSION 3 BIFURCATIONS OFHOMOCLINIC ORBITS WITH ORBITFLIPS AND INCLINATION FLIPS

The homoclinic bifurcations in four dimensional vector fields are investigated by setting up a local coordinates near the homoclinic orbit. This homoclinic orbit is non-principal in the meanings that its positive semi-orbit takes orbit flip and its unstable foliation takes inclination flip. The existence, nonexistence, uniqueness and coexistence of the 1-homoclinic orbit and the 1-periodic orbit are studied. The existence of the twofold periodic orbit and three-fold periodic orbit are also obtained.     

一类3维反转系统中的异维环分支

研究了一类3维反转系统中包含2个鞍点的对称异维环分支问题, 且仅限于研究系统的线性对合R的不变集维数为1的情形. 给出了R-对称异宿环与R-对称周期轨线存在和共存的条件, 同时也得到了R-对称的重周期轨线存在性. 其 次, 给出了异宿环、 同宿轨线、 重同宿轨线和单参数族周期轨线的存在性、 唯一性和共存性等结论, 并且发现不可数无穷条周期轨线聚集在某一同宿轨线的小邻域内. 最后给出了相应的分支图.     

具有共振特征值的轨道翻转双同宿环分支

该文研究了具有轨道翻转的双同宿环四维系统,在主特征值共振和沿轨道奇点处切方向共振下的两种分支．我们分别在系统奇点小邻域内利用规范型的解构造一个奇异映射,再在双同宿环的管状邻域内引起局部活动坐标架,利用系统线性变分方程的解定义了一个正则映射,通过复合两个映射而得到分支研究中一类重要的Poincaré映射,经过简单的计算最终得到后继函数的精确表达式．对分支方程细致地研究,我们给出了原双同宿环的保存性条件,并证明了“大” 1-同宿环分支曲面,2-重“大”1-周期轨分支曲面,“大”2-同宿环分支曲面的存在性、存在区域和近似表达式,及其分支出的“大”周期轨和“大”同宿轨的存在性区域和数量．     

Homoclinic Flip Bifurcations Accompanied by Transcritical Bifurcation

The bifurcations of orbit flip homoclinic loop with nonhyperbolic equilibria are investigated. By constructing local coordinate systems near the unperturbed homoclinic orbit, Poincaré maps for the new system are established. Then the existence of homoclinic orbit and the periodic orbit is studied for the system accompanied with transcritical bifurcation.     

A global condition for quasi-random behavior in a class of conservative systems

Devaney has shown that an autonomous Hamiltonian system in dimension 4, with an orbit homoclinic to a saddle-focus equilibrium, admits a chaotic behavior as soon as the homoclinic orbit is the transverse intersection of the stable and unstable manifolds. In this paper we deal with two classes of saddle-focus systems: Lagrangian systems defined on a two-manifold in the presence of a gyroscopic force, and fourth-order systems arising in water-wave theory. We first establish, by a standard variational method, the existence of a homoclinic orbit. Then, under a weak nondegeneracy condition, we show that it gives rise to an infinite family of multibump homoclinic solutions and that the dynamics are chaotic. Our condition is much easier to check than transversality. For example, it is automatically satisfied for gyroscopic systems on a two-torus, for topological reasons. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Critical homoclinic orbits lead to snap-back repellers

When nondegenerate homoclinic orbits to an expanding fixed point of a map f:X→X,X⊆Rⁿ, exist, the point is called a snap-back repeller. It is known that the relevance of a snap-back repeller (in its original definition) is due to the fact that it implies the existence of an invariant set on which the map is chaotic. However, when does the first homoclinic orbit appear? When can other homoclinic explosions, i.e., appearance of infinitely many new homoclinic orbits, occur? As noticed by many authors, these problems are still open. In this work we characterize these bifurcations, for any kind of map, smooth or piecewise smooth, continuous or discontinuous, defined in a bounded or unbounded closed set. We define a noncritical homoclinic orbit and a homoclinic orbit of an expanding fixed point is structurally stable iff it is noncritical. That is, only critical homoclinic orbits are responsible for the homoclinic explosions. The possible kinds of critical homoclinic orbits will be also investigated, as well as their dynamic role.