Quasi-periodic bifurcations of invariant circles in low-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems (Q2430542)

First a summary of theoretical results is given. The simplest way to describe the differences and additional difficulties with respect to the classic bifurcation theory is to say that the quasi-periodicity gives rise to a ``Cantorization'' of the bifurcation sets in the product of state space and parameter space, owing to the dense occurrence of resonances. Then a discussion of algorithms is given, which is restricted to invariant circles of maps. The basic idea here is to work in a suitable Fourier space, expressing invariant circles as truncated Fourier series. Both the continuation of invariant circles and of their bifurcation sets are considered which, in general, are Cantor-like. The interesting problem arises when the rotation number changes during the numerical continuation: the continuation process has to skip the resonances, fumbling in a search of suitable Diophantine rotation numbers. For the computation of bifurcations it is required to examine the normal linear behavior around the invariant circle. Hence it should look for the reduction to Floquet form of the linear dynamics at the invariant circle. These continuation methods are applied to the analysis of a model map for the Hopf-saddle-node bifurcation of fixed points with subsequent analysis of quasi-periodic Hopf bifurcations, Hopf saddle-node and period-doubling type. Also a quasi-periodically driven Hénon map is studied. In this case the rotation number is fixed, thereby removing the problem of internal resonances. The challenges arise due to a lack of reducibility of the normal linear dynamics.