Xingbo Liu

On the stability of double homoclinic and heteroclinic cycles

In this paper we give a criterion for the stability of planar double homoclinic and heteroclinic cycles with one or two saddles in some degenerate case.

BIFURCATION OF ROUGH HETEROCLINIC LOOP WITH ORBIT FLIPS

In this paper, heteroclinic loop bifurcations with double orbit flips are investigated in four-dimensional vector fields. We obtain the bifurcation equations by setting up a local coordinate system near the rough heteroclinic orbit and establishing the Poincare map. By means of the bifurcation equations, we investigate the existence, coexistence and noncoexistence of periodic orbit, homoclinic loop and heteroclinic loop under some nongeneric conditions. The approximate expressions of corresponding bifurcation curves (or surfaces) are also given. An example of application is also given to demonstrate the existence of the heteroclinic loop with double orbit flips.

Exponential trichotomy and homoclinic bifurcation with saddle-center equilibrium ☆

Abstract 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.

Bifurcations Near the Weak Type Heterodimensional Cycle

The aim of this paper is to show the bifurcation phenomena near the weak type heterodimensional cycle when the orbit flip and inclination flip occur simultaneously in its nontransversal heteroclinic orbit. With the aid of a suitable local coordinate system, the Poincare map is constructed. By means of the bifurcation equations, the persistence of heterodimensional cycles, the coexistence of the heterodimensional cycle and periodic orbits or homoclinic orbits, and the existence of bifurcation surfaces of homoclinic orbits or the periodic orbits are discussed under small perturbations. Moreover, an example is given to show the existence of the system which has a heterodimensional cycle with orbit flip and inclination flip.