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The geometry of resonance tongues: a singularity theory approach

Henk W Broer1, Martin Golubitsky2 and Gert Vegter3

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Resonance tongues and their boundaries are studied for nondegenerate and (certain) degenerate Hopf bifurcations of maps using singularity theory methods of equivariant contact equivalence and universal unfoldings. We recover the standard theory of tongues (the nondegenerate case) in a straightforward way and we find certain surprises in the tongue boundary structure when degeneracies are present. For example, the tongue boundaries at degenerate singularities in weak resonance are much blunter than expected from the nondegenerate theory. Also at a semi-global level we find `pockets' or `flames' that can be understood in terms of the swallowtail catastrophe.


PACS

05.45.-a Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems

02.30.Hq Ordinary differential equations

02.40.-k Geometry, differential geometry, and topology

MSC

37G15 Bifurcations of limit cycles and periodic orbits

37K50 Bifurcation problems

37G40 Symmetries, equivariant bifurcation theory

34C25 Periodic solutions

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 4 (July 2003)

Received 7 November 2002, in final form 20 May 2003

Published 6 June 2003



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