On the extinction route of a stochastic population model under heteroclinic bifurcation

The noise-induced transition of the augmented Lotka-Volterra system is investigated under vanishingly small noise.Populations will ultimately go extinct because of intrinsic noise,and different extinction routes may occur due to the Freidlin-Wentzell large deviation theory.The relation between the most probable extinction route(MPER)and heteroclinic bifurcation is studied in this paper.The MPERs and the quasi-potentials in different regimes of parameters are analyzed in detail.Before the bifurcation,the predator goes extinct,and the prey will survive for a long time.Then,the heteroclinic bifurcation changes the MPER wherein both species go extinct.The heteroclinic cycle plays a role in transferring the most probable extinction state.Moreover,the analyses of the weak noise limit can contribute to predicting the stochastic behavior under finite small noise.Both the heteroclinic bifurcation and the rotational deterministic vector field can reduce the action necessary for the MPER.

Codimension 2 reversible heteroclinic bifurcations with inclination flips

In this paper, the heteroclinic bifurcation problem with real eigenvalues and two incli- nation-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.

HETEROCLINIC ORBIT AND SUBHARMONIC BIFURCATIONS AND CHAOS OF NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR

Dynamical behavior of nonlinear oscillator under combined parametric and forcing excitation, which includes yon der Pol damping, is very complex. In this paper, Melnikov's method is used to study the heteroclinic orbit bifurcations, subharmonic bifurcations and chaos in this system. Smale horseshoes and chaotic motions can occur from odd subharmonic bifurcation of infinite order in this system-far various resonant cases finally the numerical computing method is used to study chaotic motions of this system. The results achieved reveal some new phenomena.

External Bifurcations of Double Heterodimensional Cycles with One Orbit Flip

In this paper, external bifurcations of heterodimensional cycles connecting three saddle points with one orbit flip, in the shape of “∞”, are studied in three-dimensional vector field. We construct a poincaré return map between returning points in a transverse section by establishing a locally active coordinate system in the tubular neighborhood of unperturbed double heterodimensional cycles, through which the bifurcation equations are obtained under different conditions. Near the double heterodimensional cycles, the authors prove the preservation of “∞”-shape double heterodimensional cycles and the existence of the second and third shape heterodimensional cycle and a large 1-heteroclinic cycle connecting with P1 and P3. The coexistence of a 1-fold large 1-heteroclinic cycle and the “∞”-shape double heterodimensional cycles and the coexistence conditions are also given in the parameter space.

CHAOTIC OSCILLATION OF ANONLINEAR POWER SYSTEM

For a nonlinear power transmission system, the residue calculus method is introduced and applied to study its heteroclinic bifurcation. There a cone region and a strip region of parameters are obtained, in which the power transmission system displays chaotic oscillation. This gives a theoretic analysis and a computational method for the purpose to control the nonlinear system with deviation stably running.

On the Number of Limit Cycles in Small Perturbations of a Piecewise Linear Hamiltonian System with a Heteroclinic Loop

In this paper, the authors consider limit cycle bifurcations for a kind of nonsmooth polynomial differential systems by perturbing a piecewise linear Hamiltonian system with a center at the origin and a heteroclinic loop around the origin. When the degree of perturbing polynomial terms is n(n ≥ 1), it is obtained that n limit cycles can appear near the origin and the heteroclinic loop respectively by using the first Melnikov function of piecewise near-Hamiltonian systems, and that there are at most n + [(n+1)/2] limit cycles bifurcating from the periodic annulus between the center and the heteroclinic loop up to the first order in ε. Especially, for n = 1, 2, 3 and 4, a precise result on the maximal number of zeros of the first Melnikov function is derived.

On the Bifurcations of a Hamiltonian Having Three Homoclinic Loops under Z_3 Invariant Quintic Perturbations

A cubic system having three homoclinic loops perturbed by Z3 invariant quintic polynomials is considered. By applying the qualitative method of differential equations and the numeric computing method, the Hopf bifurcation, homoclinic loop bifurcation and heteroclinic loop bifurcation of the above perturbed system are studied. It is found that the above system has at least 12 limit cycles and the distributions of limit cycles are also given.

BIFURCATION OF CUBIC INTEGRABLE SYSTEM UNDER CUBIC PERTURBATION

In this paper, we consider the bifurcation for a class of cubic integrable system under cubic perturbation. Using bifurcation theory and qualitative analysis, we obtain a complete bifurcation diagram of the system in a neighbourhood of the origin for parameter plane.