Codimension 3 nonresonant bifurcations of homoclinic orbits with two inclination flips

Homoclinic bifurcations in four-dimensional vector fields are investigated by setting up a local coordinate near a homoclinic orbit. This homoclinic orbit is principal but its stable and unstable foliations take inclination flip. The existence, nonexistence, and uniqueness of the 1-homoclinic orbit and 1-periodic orbit are studied. The existence of the two-fold 1 -periodic orbit and three-fold 1 -periodic orbit are also obtained. It is indicated that the number of periodic orbits bifurcated from this kind of homoclinic orbits depends heavily on the strength of the inclination flip.     

具有轨道翻转和倾斜翻转的退化异维环分支

本文研究4 维系统中一类具有轨道翻转和倾斜翻转的退化异维环分支问题. 通过在未扰异维环的小管状邻域内建立局部活动坐标系, 本文建立Poincaré 映射, 确定分支方程. 由对分支方程的分析,本文讨论在小扰动下, 异宿环、同宿环和周期轨的存在性、不存在性和共存性, 且给出它们的分支曲面以及共存区域, 推广了已有结果.     

Codimension 2 reversible heteroclinic bifurcations with inclination flips

In this paper, the heteroclinic bifurcation problem with real eigenvalues and two inclination-flips is investigated in a four-dimensional reversible system. We perform a detailed study of this case by using the method originally established in the papers “Problems in Homoclinic Bifurcation with Higher Dimensions” and “Bifurcation of Heteroclinic Loops,” and obtain fruitful results, such as the existence and coexistence of R-symmetric homoclinic orbit and R-symmetric heteroclinic loops, R-symmetric homoclinic orbit and R-symmetric periodic orbit. The double R-symmetric homoclinic bifurcation (i.e., two-fold R-symmetric homoclinic bifurcation) for reversible heteroclinic loops is found, and the existence of infinitely many R-symmetric periodic orbits accumulating onto a homoclinic orbit is demonstrated. The relevant bifurcation surfaces and the existence regions are also located. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10671069)     

Codimension-3 bifurcations of a class of homoclinic loop with saddle-point

In this work, bifurcations in the class that the homoclinic orbit connects the strong stable and strong unstable manifolds of a saddle are investigated for four-dimensional vector fields. The existence, numbers, coexistence and incoexistence of 1-homoclinic orbit, 1-periodic orbit, 2ⁿ$2^n$-homoclinic orbit and 2ⁿ$2^n$-periodic orbit are obtained, the approximate expressions of the corresponding bifurcation surfaces and the bifurcation diagrams are also presented.     

Bifurcation of rough heteroclinic loop with orbit and inclination flips

In this paper, we are concerned with the heteroclinic loop bifurcations accompanied by one orbit flip and one inclination flip under some roughness conditions. The existence of one 1-periodic orbit, one 1-homoclinic orbit, two 1-periodic orbits, one double 1-periodic orbit is obtained, respectively, approximate expressions of the corresponding bifurcation curves (or surfaces) and the corresponding bifurcation graphs under nontwisted or twisted conditions are also given.     

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.     

Degenerate Orbit Flip Homoclinic Bifurcations with Higher Dimensions

Bifurcations of a degenerate homoclinic orbit with orbit flip in high dimensional system are studied. By establishing a local coordinate system and a Poincaré map near the homoclinic orbit, the existence and uniqueness of 1–homoclinic orbit and 1–periodic orbit are given. Also considered is the existence of 2–homoclinic orbit and 2–periodic orbit. In additon, the corresponding bifurcation surfaces are given. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 10171044), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No: BK2001024), the Foundation for University Key Teachers of the Ministry of Education of China     

Maximal planar graphs of inscribable type and diagonal flips

A theorem due to Wagner states that given two maximal planar graphs with n vertices, one can be obtained from the other by performing a finite sequence of diagonal flips. In this paper, we show a result of a similar flavour—given two maximal planar graphs of inscribable type having the same vertex set, one can be obtained from the other by performing a finite sequence of diagonal flips such that all the intermediate graphs are of inscribable type.     

The loop quantities and bifurcations of homoclinic loops

The stability and bifurcations of a homoclinic loop for planar vector fields are closely related to the limit cycles. For a homoclinic loop of a given planar vector field, a sequence of quantities, the homoclinic loop quantities were defined to study the stability and bifurcations of the loop. Among the sequence of the loop quantities, the first nonzero one determines the stability of the homoclinic loop. There are formulas for the first three and the fifth loop quantities. In this paper we will establish the formula for the fourth loop quantity for both the single and double homoclinic loops. As applications, we present examples of planar polynomial vector fields which can have five or twelve limit cycles respectively in the case of a single or double homoclinic loop by using the method of stability-switching.     

伴随超临界分支的非通有同宿轨道分支

考虑伴随超临界分支的高维非退化系统在非通有假设下的同宿轨道分支问题,通过在未扰同宿轨道邻域建立活动坐标架,导出系统在新坐标系下的全局Poincare映射,对伴随超临界分支的非通有同宿轨道的保存及分支周期轨道的情况导出相应的分支方程和分支图．     

Bifurcations of resonant solutions and chaos in physical pendulum equation with suspension axis vibrations

This paper is a continuation of ＂Complex Dynamics in Physical Pendulum Equation with Suspension Axis Vibrations＂[1].In this paper,we investigate the existence and the bifurcations of resonant solution for ω0：ω：Ω ≈ 1：1：n,1：2：n,1：3：n,2：1：n and 3：1：n by using second-order averaging method,give a criterion for the existence of resonant solution for ω0：ω：Ω ≈ 1：m：n by using Melnikov＇s method and verify the theoretical analysis by numerical simulations.By numerical simulation,we expose some other interesting dynamical behaviors including the entire invariant torus region,the cascade of invariant torus behaviors,the entire chaos region without periodic windows,chaotic region with complex periodic windows,the entire period-one orbits region;the jumping behaviors including invariant torus behaviors converting to period-one orbits,from chaos to invariant torus behaviors or from invariant torus behaviors to chaos,from period-one to chaos,from invariant torus behaviors to another invariant torus behaviors;the interior crisis;and the different nice invariant torus attractors and chaotic attractors.The numerical results show the difference of dynamical behaviors for the physical pendulum equation with suspension axis vibrations between the cases under the three frequencies resonant condition and under the periodic/quasi-periodic perturbations.It exhibits many invariant torus behaviors under the resonant conditions.We find a lot of chaotic behaviors which are different from those under the periodic/quasi-periodic perturbations.However,we did not find the cascades of period-doubling bifurcation.     

On nulls of perturbed Fredholm operators and degenerate homoclinic bifurcations

It is known that small perturbations of a Fredholm operator L have nulls of dimension not larger than dim N (L). In this paper for any given positive integer k≤dim N(L) we prove that there is a perturbation of L which has an exactly κ-dimensional null. Actually, our proof gives a construction of the perturbation. We further apply our result to concrete examples of differential equations with degenerate homoclinic orbits, showing how many independent homoclinic orbits can be bifurcated from a perturbation.     

Secondary bifurcations and localisation in a three-dimensional buckling model

This paper revisits the effect of secondary bifurcations on the post-buckling response of a simple 3D system of elastically restrained beams, first discussed by Luongo in [19]. Our main objective is to show how to construct a uniform asymptotic expression for the localised buckling patterns experienced by this model. The governing equation is formulated as a fourth-order eigenvalue problem with non-constant coefficients and then a complex WKB technique is employed to yield the localised instability patterns. Numerical simulations supporting the analytical findings are included as well.Received: October 21, 2003     

Stability and Hopf bifurcations in a business cycle model with delay

In this paper, a business cycle model with discrete delay is considered. We first investigate the stability of the equilibrium and the existence of Hopf bifurcations, and then the direction and the stability criteria of the bifurcating periodic solutions are obtained by the normal form theory and the center manifold theorem. This research has an important theoretical value as well as practical meaning.     

Sequential and continuum bifurcations in degenerate elliptic equations

We examine the bifurcations to positive and sign-changing solutions of degenerate elliptic equations. In the problems we study, which do not represent Fredholm operators, we show that there is a critical parameter value at which an infinity of bifurcations occur from the trivial solution. Moreover, a bifurcation occurs at each point in some unbounded interval in parameter space. We apply our results to non-monotone eigenvalue problems, degenerate semi-linear elliptic equations, boundary value differential-algebraic equations and fully non-linear elliptic equations.

     

Limit cycle bifurcations near generalized homoclinic loop in piecewise smooth systems with a cusp

For a piecewise analytical Hamiltonian system with a cusp on a switch line, which has a family of periodic orbits near a generalized homoclinic loop, we study the maximum number of limit cycles bifurcating from the periodic orbits. For doing so, we first obtain the asymptotic expressions of the Melnikov functions near the loop. Finally we present two examples illustrating applications of the main results.     

Splitting lemma at infinity and a strongly resonant problem with periodic nonlinearity

In this paper we study the following problem:with periodic nonlinearity g, where and λ₂ is the second eigenvalue of −Δ, on H ¹ ₀(B). We proved that the problem has infinitely many solutions under some additional conditions on g and h. The method we used is a new variational reduction method. Mathematics Subject Classi cation (2000) 35J20, 35J70     

Two-dimensional invariant manifolds and global bifurcations: some approximation and visualization studies

We illustrate and discuss the computer-assisted study (approximation and visualization) of two-dimensional (un)stable manifolds of steady states and saddle-type limit cycles for flows in R ⁿ . Our investigation highlights a number of computational issues arising in this task, along with our solutions and “quick-fixes” for some of these problems. Two examples illustrative of both successes and shortcomings of our current approach are presented. Representative “snapshots” demonstrate the dependence of two-dimensional invariant manifolds on a bifurcation parameter as well as their interactions. Such approximation and visualization studies are a necessary component of the computer-assisted study and understanding of global bifurcations. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

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.     

Homoclinic Bifurcation of Orbit Flip with Resonant Principal Eigenvalues

Codimension-3 bifurcations of an orbit-flip homoclinic orbit with resonant principal eigenvalues are studied for a four-dimensional system. The existence, number, co-existence and noncoexistence of 1-homoclinic orbit, 1-periodic orbit, 2n-homoclinic orbit and 2n-periodic orbit are obtained. The bifurcation surfaces and existence regions are also given.