STRANGE ATTRACTORS IN SYMMETRIC UNFOLDINGS OF A SINGULARITY WITH THREE-FOLD ZERO EIGENVALUE

In this paper,we study the Sil'nikov heteroclinic bifurcations,which display strange attractors,for the symmetric versal unfoldings of the singularity at the origin with a nilpotent linear part and 3-jet,using the normal form,the blow-up and the generalized Mel'nikov methods of heteroclinic orbits to two hyperbolic or nonhyperbolic equilibria in a high-dimensional space.