Path formulation for multiparameter \(\mathbb D_3\)-equivariant bifurcation problems (Q1958978)

The reviewed article is about the implementation of a singularity theory approach, the path formulation, to classify multiparameter bifurcation problems and their perturbations. The authors have chosen problems in corank 2 equivariant with respect to the dihedral group \(\mathbb{D}_3\). The bifurcation diagrams are identified with sections over paths in the parameter space of a \(\mathbb{D}_3\)-miniversal unfolding \(F_0\) of their cores. Equivalence between paths is given by diffeomorphysms liftable over the projection from the zero-set of \(F_0\) onto its unfolding parameter space. In each of obtained diagrams a bifurcation of period-3 points for some reversible problem can be found, but \(1:1\)-resonance has particular interest because it corresponds to a degenerate behaviour of the bifurcation parameters. Details of the low codimension problems for that resonance are presented. The main result of the article states that the theories of bifurcation and path equivalences coincide for problems of finite dimension.