Transversal Heteroclinic Bifurcation in Hybrid Systems with Application to Linked Rocking Blocks

In this paper, we study heteroclinic bifurcation and the appearance of chaos in time-perturbed piecewise smooth hybrid systems with discontinuities on finitely many switching manifolds. The unperturbed system has a heteroclinic orbit connecting hyperbolic saddles of the unperturbed system that crosses every switching manifold transversally, possibly multiple times. By applying a functional analytical method, we obtain a set of Melnikov functions whose zeros correspond to the occurrence of chaos of the system. As an application, we present an example of quasiperiodically excited piecewise smooth system with impacts formed by two linked rocking blocks.     

Heteroclinic dynamics and attitude motion chaotization of coaxial bodies and dual-spin spacecraft

Heteroclinic dynamics of a free coaxial bodies system and dual-spin spacecraft is examined. New analytical solutions for heteroclinic orbits, corresponded to the polhodes-separatrices in the space of the angular moment components, are obtained. On the base of these analytical heteroclinic solutions analysis of possibility of the system motion chaotization with the help of Melnikov method is conducted. The analysis shows the polhode-separatrix-orbit splitting at presence of small harmonical perturbation torques between the coaxial bodies. The separatrix splitting generates the chaotic layer near the unperturbed separatrix region. This fact proves possibility of realization of non-regular dynamics and chaotic tilting motion of the dual-spin spacecraft.     

Existence of heteroclinic orbits of the Shil'nikov type in a 3D quadratic autonomous chaotic system

In this paper, the existence of heteroclinic orbits of Shil'nikov type in a three-dimensional quadratic autonomous system is proved. Four heteroclinic orbits and four critical points together constitute two cycles simultaneously. The dynamical behaviors of the system are also studied.     

A new method to find homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits

A new series method is provided for continuous-time autonomous dynamical systems, which can find exact orbits as opposed to approximate ones. The method can reduce the connecting orbit problem as a boundary value problem in an infinite time domain to the initial value problem. It consists of transforming time to the logarithmic scale, substituting a power series around each fixed point of interest for each of the unknown functions into the system, and equating the corresponding coefficients. When solving for the power series coefficients, additional parameters are used in order to find the intersections of the unstable manifold and the stable manifold of the equilibria. This paper demonstrates how the new method allows to obtain heteroclinic and homoclinic orbits in some well-known cases, such as Nagumo system, stretch-twist-fold flow or mathematical pendulum.     

Bifurcations of Rough Heteroclinic Loops with Three Saddle Points

In this paper, we study the bifurcation problems of rough heteroclinic loops connecting three saddle points for a higher-dimensional system. Under some transversal conditions and the nontwisted condition, the existence, uniqueness, and incoexistence of the 1-heteroclinic loop with three or two saddle points, 1-homoclinic orbit and 1-periodic orbit near Γ are obtained. Meanwhile, the bifurcation surfaces and existence regions are also given. Moreover, the above bifurcation results are extended to the case for heteroclinic loop with l saddle points. Received January 4, 2001, Accepted July 3, 2001.     

Melnikov method and detection of chaos for non-smooth systems

We extend the Melnikov method to non-smooth dynamical systems to study the global behavior near a non-smooth homoclinic orbit under small time-periodic perturbations. The definition and an explicit expression for the extended Melnikov function are given and applied to determine the appearance of transversal homoclinic orbits and chaos. In addition to the standard integral part, the extended Melnikov function contains an extra term which reflects the change of the vector field at the discontinuity. An example is discussed to illustrate the results.     

周期时间制约的非Hamliton可积Kolmogorov系统的混沌与次谐波

本文研究一类非Hamilton可积的Kolmogorov生态系统的周期激励模型，应用Melnikov方法，得到了该系统存在混沌与次谐分枝的某些充分条件。     

自治奇摄动系统的同、异宿轨道

利用指数二分性理论和泛函分析方法来处理第一变分方程在R上有多于一个非平凡有界解下的奇摄动系统的同宿轨道分支问题.利用此方法我们给出了判断奇摄动系统在退化情形下存在同、异宿轨道的Melnikov向量函数并给出了存在同宿轨道的参数估计范围.     

同宿流形中的奇异轨道

研究较一般的高维退化系统的同宿、异宿轨道分支问题．利用推广的Melnikov函数、横截性理论及奇摄动理论，对具有鞍—中心型奇点的带有角变量的奇摄动系统，在角变量频率产生共振的情况下，讨论其同宿、异缩轨道的扰动下保存和横截的条件．推广和改进了一些文献的结果。     

Stabilizing periodic orbits of fractional order chaotic systems via linear feedback theory

In this paper stabilizing unstable periodic orbits (UPO) in a chaotic fractional order system is studied. Firstly, a technique for finding unstable periodic orbits in chaotic fractional order systems is stated. Then by applying this technique to the fractional van der Pol and fractional Duffing systems as two demonstrative examples, their unstable periodic orbits are found. After that, a method is presented for stabilization of the discovered UPOs based on the theories of stability of linear integer order and fractional order systems. Finally, based on the proposed idea a linear feedback controller is applied to the systems and simulations are done for demonstration of controller performance.     

Codimension 3 Non-resonant Bifurcations of Rough Heteroclinic Loops with One Orbit Flip

Heteroclinic bifurcations in four dimensional vector fields are investigated by setting up a local coordinates near a rough heteroclinic loop. This heteroclinic loop has a principal heteroclinic orbit and a non-principal heteroclinic orbit that takes orbit flip. The existence, nonexistence, coexistence and uniqueness of the 1-heteroclinic loop, 1-homoclinic orbit and 1-periodic orbit are studied. The existence of the two-fold or three-fold 1-periodic orbit is also obtained.     

Banach空间中正则非退化异宿环的Lipschitz 扰动

本文研究Banach空间上离散动力系统的Lipschitz扰动.设f,g是Banach空间(X,||·||)上的连续自映射.如果f具有正则非退化返回排斥子或正则非退化异宿环且g是f的Lipschitz小扰动,则g也有正则非退化返回排斥子或正则非退化异宿环.另外,本文还证明完备度量空间中正则非退化异宿环蕴含正则非退化返回...     

Heteroclinic solutions for a difference equation involving the mean curvature operator

By using critical point theory, the existence of heteroclinic solutions for a second-order difference equation involving the mean curvature operator is obtained, and the values of solutions at $-\infty$ and $+\infty$ are more general than existing results in the literature. An example is presented to demonstrate the applicability of our main results.     

Heteroclinic orbits and heteroclinic chains for a discrete Hamiltonian system

In the present work we prove some existence results of heteroclinic orbits and heteroclinic chains for a second order discrete Hamiltonian system of the form Δ2q(t-1)+V(q(t))=0,t∈Z.The methods we use are variational in nature.Our results show that under general conditions,for each maximum point β of V,the above system possesses multiple heteroclinic orbits joining β and some other maximum points of V.We also prove that for any pair of distinct maximum points η and ξ of V,there exists at least one heteroclinic chain from η to ξ.     

一类余维3的鞍-焦点异宿环分支

对余维3系统X_μ(x)具有包含一个双曲鞍-焦点O_1和一个非双曲鞍-焦点O_2的异宿环f进行了研究.证明了在f的邻域内有可数无穷条周期轨线和异宿轨线,当非粗糙异宿轨线Γ~0破裂时X_μ(x)会产生同宿轨分支,并给出了相应的分支曲线和两种同宿环共存的参数值.在3参数扰动下Γ~0破裂和O_2点产生Hopf分支的情况下,在f的邻域内有一条含O_1点同宿环,可数无效多条的轨线同宿于O_2点分支出的闭轨H_0,一条或无穷多条(可数或连续统的)异宿轨线等.     

Exponentially Tapered Josephson Junction: Some Analytic Results

We investigate the dynamical properties of an exponentially tapered Josephson junction using a simple one-dimensional model described by a perturbed (nearly integrable) sine-Gordon equation. An approximate analytic solution is based on the linearization about a rapidly oscillating background. We compare the analytic results with direct numerical simulations for the magnetic field patterns in the junction. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 144, No. 2, pp. 348–353, August, 2005     

On the Number of Limit Cycles in Small Perturbations of a Piecewise Linear Hamiltonian System with a Heteroclinic Loop

In this paper, the authors consider limit cycle bifurcations for a kind of nonsmooth polynomial differential systems by perturbing a piecewise linear Hamiltonian system with a center at the origin and a heteroclinic loop around the origin. When the degree of perturbing polynomial terms is n(n ≥ 1), it is obtained that n limit cycles can appear near the origin and the heteroclinic loop respectively by using the first Melnikov function of piecewise near-Hamiltonian systems, and that there are at most n + [(n+1)/2] limit cycles bifurcating from the periodic annulus between the center and the heteroclinic loop up to the first order in ε. Especially, for n = 1, 2, 3 and 4, a precise result on the maximal number of zeros of the first Melnikov function is derived.     

Lower bounds for the number of limit cycles of trigonometric Abel equations

We consider the Abel equation , where A(t) and B(t) are trigonometric polynomials of degree n and m, respectively, and we give lower bounds for its number of isolated periodic orbits for some values of n and m. These lower bounds are obtained by two different methods: the study of the perturbations of some Abel equations having a continuum of periodic orbits and the Hopf-type bifurcation of periodic orbits from the solution x=0.     

Heteroclinic Cycles in Coupled Systems of Difference Equations

Cycling behavior, in which solution trajectories linger around steady-states and periodic solutions, is known to be a generic feature of coupled cell systems of differential equations. In this type of systems, cycling behavior can even occur independently of the internal dynamics of each cell. This conclusion has lead to the discovery of "cycling chaos", in which solution trajectories cycle around symmetrically related chaotic sets. In this work, we demonstrate that cycling behavior also occurs in coupled systems of difference equations. More specifically, we prove the existence of structurally stable cycles between fixed points, and use numerical simulations to illustrate that the resulting cycles can also persist independently of the internal dynamics of each cell. Consequently, we demonstrate that cycles involving periodic orbits as well as cycling chaos also occur in systems of difference equations.