Subharmonics near an equilibrium point for hamitonian systems

This work is devoted to the study of subharmonic solutions near an equilibrium for certain Hamiltonian systems. We impose a weak condition on the Floquet exponents of the linearized system, and a superquadratic condition on the higher order term. This last condition is reduced to the center manifold. This research was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AFOSR-87-0202.     

Estimates for periodic solutions of differential equations

A class of infinite delay equations which are per- turbations of finitely delayed equations is considered. Asymptotic estimates are obtained for the solutions from which we get the existence of periodic solutions. We review a few technics for fixed point theorems     

Polynomial normal forms of constrained differential equations with three parameters

We study generic constrained differential equations (CDEs) with three parameters, thereby extending Takens's classification of singularities of such equations. In this approach, the singularities analyzed are the Swallowtail, the Hyperbolic, and the Elliptic Umbilics. We provide polynomial local normal forms of CDEs under topological equivalence. Generic CDEs are important in the study of slow–fast (SF) systems. Many properties and the characteristic behavior of the solutions of SF systems can be inferred from the corresponding CDE. Therefore, the results of this paper show a first approximation of the flow of generic SF systems with three slow variables.     

Normal forms for stochastic differential equations

Summary.   We address the following problem from the intersection of dynamical systems and stochastic analysis: Two SDE dx _t = ∑ _{j =0} ^m f _j (x _t )∘dW _t ^j and dx _t =∑ _{j =0} ^m g _j (x _t )∘dW _t ^j in ℝ ^d with smooth coefficients satisfying f _j (0)=g _j (0)=0 are said to be smoothly equivalent if there is a smooth random diffeomorphism (coordinate transformation) h(ω) with h(ω,0)=0 and Dh(ω,0)=id which conjugates the corresponding local flows,

Unique normal forms for area preserving maps near a fixed point with neutral multipliers

We study normal forms for families of area-preserving maps which have a fixed point with neutral multipliers ±1 at ? = 0. Our study covers both the orientation-preserving and orientation-reversing cases. In these cases Birkhoff normal forms do not provide a substantial simplification of the system. In the paper we prove that the Takens normal form vector field can be substantially simplified. We also show that if certain non-degeneracy conditions are satisfied no further simplification is generically possible since the constructed normal forms are unique. In particular, we provide a full system of formal invariants with respect to formal coordinate changes.     

Equivariant normal forms for parameterized delay differential equations with applications to bifurcation theory

In this paper, we develop an efficient approach to compute the equivariant normal form of delay differential equations with parameters in the presence of symmetry. We present and justify a process that involves center manifold reduction and normalization preserving the symmetry, and that yields normal forms explicitly in terms of the coefficients of the original system. We observe that the form of the reduced vector field relies only on the information of the linearized system at the critical point and on the inherent symmetry, and the normal forms give critical information about not only the existence but also the stability and direction of bifurcated spatiotemporal patterns. We illustrate our general results by some applications to fold bifurcation, equivariant Hopf bifurcation and Hopf-Hopf interaction, with a detailed case study of additive neurons with delayed feedback.     

Finite determinacy and polynomial normal forms for diffeomorphisms near a strongly 1-resonant fixed point

In this paper we study polynomial normal forms and smooth (C^∞$C^{\infty }$) classification of one kind of diffeomorphisms which have infinite many resonant relations but are finitely determined. We derive a complete list of normal forms of all such germs with arbitrary degeneracy of their nonlinear parts.     

Normal forms for differentiable maps near a fixed point

We propose in this paper a significant refinement of normal forms for differentiable maps near a fixed point. We give a method to obtain further reduction of classical normal forms with concrete and interesting applications. Our method leads to unique normal forms either with respect to general diffeomorphisms in certain cases or with respect to near identity diffeomorphisms in other cases. Our approach is rational in the sense that if the coefficients of a map are in a field K, so is its normal form. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Generalized normal forms for two-dimensional systems of ordinary differential equations with linear and quadratic unperturbed parts

Various definitions of normal forms for systems of ordinary differential equations are discussed. The notion of a generalized normal form and the problem of formal equivalency of systems of differential equations in terms of resonant equations are considered. The method of resonant equations is applied to two-dimensional systems whose unperturbed parts are linear in the first equation and quadratic in the second one.     

Symbolic computation for center manifolds and normal forms of Bogdanov bifurcation in retarded functional differential equations

In this paper, we present explicit formulas for computing the coefficients of a center manifold for the Bogdanov singularity in autonomous retarded functional differential equations with parameters. As a consequence, normal forms associated with the flow on a center manifold up to an arbitrary order are derived. The explicit formulas have been implemented using the computer algebra system Maple. The paper ends with some examples given in order to show the applicability of the methodology and the convenience of the computer software.     

Exponentially long time stability near an equilibrium point for non–linearizable analytic vector fields

We study the orbit behaviour of a germ of an analytic vector field of (\mathbbCⁿ ,0), n 3 2.(\mathbb{C}^n ,0), n \geq 2. We prove that if its linear part is semisimple, non–resonant and verifies a Bruno–like condition, then the origin is effectively stable: stable for finite but exponentially long times.     

Estimates and exact expressions for lyapunov exponents of stochastic linear differential equations

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a stochastic linear differential equation driven by a finite states Markov process. We consider the sample path Lyapunov exponent λ and the p-moment Lyapunov exponents g(p) for positive p. We derive relations between X and g{p\ which are extensions to our situation of results of Arnold [1] in a different context. Using a Lyapunov function approach, an exact expression forg(2) and estimates for g(p) are obtained, thus leading to upper and lower bounds for λ     

On differential equations satisfied by modular forms

We use the theory of modular functions to give a new proof of a result of P. F. Stiller, which asserts that, if t is a non-constant meromorphic modular function of weight 0 and F is a meromorphic modular form of weight k with respect to a discrete subgroup of SL ₂ () commensurable with SL ₂ (), then F, as a function of t, satisfies a (k+1)-st order linear differential equation with algebraic functions of t as coefficients. Furthermore, we show that the Schwarzian differential equation for the modular function t can be extracted from any given (k+1)-st order linear differential equation of this type. One advantage of our approach is that every coefficient in the differential equations can be relatively easily determined. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):11F03, 11F11.     

The necessary conditions of the preservation of an invariant manifold of an autonomous system near an equilibrium point

Let a smooth autonomous system of ordinary differential equations have a smooth locally invariant manifold passing through its equilibrium point. The sufficient conditions are known under which each perturbed system has at least one smooth invariant manifoldC ¹ close to the original one. In the paper we prove the necessity of these conditions.