HOMOCLINIC BRANCH SWITCHING: A NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF LIN'S METHOD

We present a numerical method for branch switching between homoclinic orbits to equilibria of ODEs computed via numerical continuation. Starting from a 1-homoclinic orbit our method allows us to find and follow an N-homoclinic orbit, for any N>1 (if it exists nearby). This scheme is based on Lin's method and it is robust and reliable. The method is implemented in AUTO/HOMCONT. A system of ordinary differential equations introduced by Sandstede featuring inclination and orbit flip bifurcations and homoclinic-doubling cascades, is used as a test bed for the algorithm. It is also successfully applied to reliably find multihump traveling wave solutions in the FitzHugh–Nagumo nerve-axon equations and in a fourth-order Hamiltonian system arising as a model for water waves.

Bifurcation of Homoclinic Orbits to a Saddle-Center in Reversible Systems

We consider two-parameter families of reversible vector fields having (at the critical parameter value) a homoclinic orbit to a nonhyperbolic fixed point. The nonhyperbolicity is due to a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues. We give a complete description of the bifurcating one-homoclinic orbits to the center manifold. For that purpose we adapt Lin's method.

James quasi reflexive space has the fixed point property

We prove that the classical sequence James space has the fixed point property. This gives an example of Banach space with a non-unconditional basis where the Maurey-Lin's method applies.