Saddle-Node Cusp Points

In figure 2b, there are clearly folds in the left-hand side of the 3/2 and 2/1 resonance horns. This phenomenon had not (when we observed it) been seen in other forced oscillators such as the Brusselator model (Kai Tomita 1979) and the non-isothermal cstr (Kevrekidis et al. 1986), although it may have been missed in previous numerical studies that did not use arc-length continuation. It is however also to be found in unpublished work of Marek s group. The cusp points at M and L are quite different from the apparent cusp  

FIGURE 6 The section BB of the fold in the left-hand side of the 2/1 resonance horn at A/A = 1.40 (see figure 2). The points P, R, and S are turning points and point Q is Hopf point. 

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The excitation diagram was found to contain saddle-node, Hopf, period doubling, and homoclinic bifurcations for the stroboscopic map. In addition, many of these co-dimension one bifurcation curves were found to meet at the following co-dimension two bifurcation points Bogdanov points (double +1 multipliers), points with double -1 multipliers, points with multipliers at li and H, metacritical period-doubling points, and saddle-node cusp points. 

To summarize the results so far, we plot the bifurcation curves h = +hfr) in the (r,h) plane (Figure 3.6.2). Note that the two bifurcation curves meet tangentially at (r, /i) = (0,0) such a point is called a cusp point. VJe also label the regions that correspond to different numbers of fixed points. Saddle-node bifurcations occur all along the boundary of the regions, except at the cusp point, where we have a codimension-2 bifurcation. (This fancy terminology essentially means that we have had to tune two parameters, h and r, to achieve this type of bifurcation. Un-... 

Figure 23. A calculated two-parameter bifurcation diagram for the formic acid model [Eq. (15)] showing the locations of the saddle-node (solid line), Hopf (dashed line), and saddle-loop bifurcations (dotted-dashed line). All three curves meet in a Takens-Bogdanov point close to the cusp. (Reprinted with permission from P. Strasser, M. Eiswirth and G. Ertl, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 991-1003, 1997. Copyright 1997 American Institute of Physics.)...

Fig. 11.1 Two-dimensional bifurcation diagram calculated by continuation from the Citri-Epstein mechanism for the chlorite-iodide system. Plot of 2D space of constraints is chosen to be the ratio of input concentrations, [CIO ]o/[I ]o> versus the logarithm of the reciprocal resideuce time, logfco-Notation SSI, SS2, region of steady states with high [1 ] and low [I ], respectively Osc, region of periodic oscillations Exc, region of excitahihty snl, sn2, curves of saddle-node bifurcations of steady states hp, curve of Hopf bifiucatious sup, ciuve of saddle-node bifurcations of periodic orbits swt, swallow tail (a small area of tristability) C, cusp point TB, Takens-Bogdanov point (terminus of hp on snl). (From [5].)...

As /i increases within a resonant zone other periodic orbits with the same rotation number M/N may appear. In some cases, the boundary of the resonant zone can lose its smoothness at some points, like in the example shown in Fig. 11.7.4 here, the resonant zone consists of the union of two regions D and Z>2 corresponding to the existence of, respectively, one and two pairs of periodic orbits on the torus. The points C and C2 in Fig. 11.7.4 correspond to a cusp-bifurcation. At the point S corresponding to the existence of a pair of saddle-node periodic orbits the boundary of the resonant zone is non-smooth. 

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