The stability of periodic solutions of periodic systems of differential equations with a heteroclinic contour (Q2227886)

The author studies a two-dimensional periodic system of differential equations with two hyperbolic periodic solutions under the assumption that a heteroclinic contour exists. The case, in which stable and unstable manifolds intersect nontransversally at the points of at least one heteroclinic solution, is considered. It is shown that there are stable periodic solutions in a neighborhood of the heteroclinic contour. In this paper, heteroclinic contours are studied under the assumption that, at the points of nontransversal intersection of a stable and an unstable manifold at the points of the heteroclinic solution, the tangency is not a tangency of finite order. It is shown that a countable set of periodic solutions is located in a neighborhood of such a heteroclinic contour the characteristic exponents of which are separated from zero.