A quantitative bifurcation analysis of Hénon-like 2D maps (Q1370970)

The authors numerically study the bifurcations of two nonlinear maps with the same linear part which depend on a parameter, namely the Hénon quadratic map and the so-called ``beam-beam'' map. There are studied many families of periodic orbits which bifurcate from the central family, and it is shown that each family undergoes a sequence of period doubling bifurcations in the quadratic map, but the behavior of the ``beam-beam'' map is completely different. Inverse bifurcations occur in both maps, but some families of the same type which bifurcate inversely in the quadratic map do not bifurcate inversely in the ``beam-beam'' map, even though both maps have identical linear parts.