Cascades of homoclinic orbits to, and chaos near, a Hamiltonian saddle- center

DOI10.1007/BF01048157zbMath0749.58022OpenAlexW1966583684MaRDI QIDQ1183224

Alexander Mielke, Philip J. Holmes, Oliver M. O'Reilly

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01048157

zbMATH Keywords

horseshoehomoclinic bifurcationsreversible Hamiltonian systemssaddle-centre

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99)

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