Interplay between Normal Forms and Center Manifold Reduction for Homoclinic Predictors near Bogdanov-Takens Bifurcation

Maikel Bosschaert*, Yu.A. Kuznetsov

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Abstract

This paper provides for the first time correct third-order homoclinic predictors in n-dimensional ODEs near a generic Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation point, which can be used to start the numerical continuation of the appearing homoclinic orbits. To achieve this, higher-order time approximations to the nonlinear time transformation in the Lindstedt-Poincar\'e method are essential. Moreover, a correct transform between approximations to solutions in the normal form and approximations to solutions on the parameter-dependent center manifold is derived rigorously. A detailed comparison is done between applying different normal forms (smooth and orbital), different phase conditions, and different perturbation methods (regular and Lindstedt-Poincar\'e) to approximate the homoclinic solution near Bogdanov-Takens points. Examples demonstrating the correctness of the predictors are given. The new homoclinic predictors are implemented in the open-source MATLAB/GNU Octave continuation package MatCont.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)410-439
Number of pages30
JournalSIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
Volume23
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jan 2024

Bibliographical note

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© 2024 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Funding

Acknowledgments. The authors would like to thank Prof. Peter De Maesschalck (Hasselt University, Belgium) for multiple useful discussions during this research project, Prof. Wolf-J\" urgen Beyn (Bielefeld University, Germany) for his positive comments on the preprint, and Dr. Hil Meijer (University of Twente, The Netherlands) for multiple suggestions leading to a significant improvement of the paper. Additionally, we would like to express our gratitude to the two anonymous referees for very useful remarks and suggestions.

FundersFunder number
University of Twente
Universität Bielefeld
Universiteit Hasselt

    Keywords

    • Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation
    • center manifold reduction
    • homoclinic asymptotics

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