A High-Order Melnikov Method for Heteroclinic Orbits in Planar Vector Fields and Heteroclinic Persisting Perturbations

This work extends the high-order Melnikov method established by FJ Chen and QD Wang to heteroclinic orbits, and it is used to prove, under a certain class of perturbations, the heteroclinic orbit in a planar vector field that remains unbroken. Perturbations which have this property together form the heteroclinic persisting space. The Van der Pol system is analysed as an application.

Planar vector fields with central symmetry: roughness and first degree of non-roughness

Рассматривается пространство гладких векторных полей, заданных в замкнутой области D на плоскости, инвариантных относительно центральной симметрии и трансверсальных границе D. Описано множество векторных полей, грубых относительно этого пространства; показано, что оно открыто и всюду плотно. Во множестве всех негрубых векторных полей выделено открытое всюду плотное подмножество, состоящее из векторных полей первой степени негрубости. We consider the space of smooth vector fields defined in a closed domain D on the plane, invariant under the central symmetry and transversal to the boundary D. The set of vector fields that are rough with respect to this space is described; it is shown that it is open and everywhere dense. In the set of all non-rough vector fields, an open everywhere dense subset consisting of vector fields of the first degree of non-roughness is distinguished.

Bifurcations of Heteroclinic Contours in Two-Parameter Planar Systems: Overview and Explicit Examples

Smooth planar vector fields containing two hyperbolic saddles may possess contours formed by heteroclinic connections between these saddles. We present an overview of known results on bifurcations of these contours. Additionally, two new explicit polynomial systems containing such contours are derived, which are studied using the bifurcation software matcont and are shown to exhibit the theoretically predicted phenomena, including series of heteroclinic connections.

Orbital Hypernormal Forms

In this paper, we analyze the problem of determining orbital hypernormal forms—that is, the simplest analytical expression that can be obtained for a given autonomous system around an isolated equilibrium point through time-reparametrizations and transformations in the state variables. We show that the computation of orbital hypernormal forms can be carried out degree by degree using quasi-homogeneous expansions of the vector field of the system by means of reduced time-reparametrizations and near-identity transformations, achieving an important reduction in the computational effort. Moreover, although the orbital hypernormal form procedure is essentially nonlinear in nature, our results show that orbital hypernormal forms are characterized by means of linear operators. Some applications are considered: the case of planar vector fields, with emphasis on a case of the Takens–Bogdanov singularity.

A New Normal Form for Monodromic Nilpotent Singularities of Planar Vector Fields

In this work, we present a new technique for solving the center problem for nilpotent singularities which consists of determining a new normal form conveniently adapted to study the center problem for this singularity. In fact, it is a pre-normal form with respect to classical Bogdanov–Takens normal formal and it allows to approach the center problem more efficiently. The new normal form is applied to several examples.

Orbital Reversibility of Planar Vector Fields

In this work we use the normal form theory to establish an algorithm to determine if a planar vector field is orbitally reversible. In previous works only algorithms to determine the reversibility and conjugate reversibility have been given. The procedure is useful in the center problem because any nondegenerate and nilpotent center is orbitally reversible. Moreover, using this algorithm is possible to find degenerate centers which are orbitally reversible.

Center cyclicity for some nilpotent singularities including the ℤ2-equivariant class

This work concerns with polynomial families of real planar vector fields having a monodromic nilpotent singularity. The families considered are those for which the centers are characterized by the existence of a formal inverse integrating factor vanishing at the singularity with a leading term of minimum [Formula: see text]-quasihomogeneous weighted degree, being [Formula: see text] the Andreev number of the singularity. These families strictly include the case [Formula: see text] and also the [Formula: see text]-equivariant families. In some cases for such families we solve, under additional assumptions, the local Hilbert 16th problem giving global bounds on the maximum number of limit cycles that can bifurcate from the singularity under perturbations within the family. Several examples are given.