Codimension-one persistence beyond all orders of homoclinic orbits to singular saddle centres in reversible systems (Q2707005)

This paper deals with the four-dimensional reversible systems \(\dot x= f(x)\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^4\), \(Tf(x)=- f(T_x)\), \(T^2= \text{Id}\), \(S= \text{fix}(T)\cong \mathbb{R}^2\), where \(T\) is a reversing symmetry such that \(x= 0\) is a saddle-centre equilibrium: \(f(0)= 0\), \(\sigma(f'(0))= \{\pm\lambda\pm i\omega\}\) for some \(\omega> 0\), \(\lambda\geq 0\). The author is interested in the singular saddle-center bifurcation of the system. Assuming for simplicity that \(f\) is analytic the author restricts himself to the case where the normal form of this bifurcation truncated at finite order contains a homoclinic orbit in its `hyperbolic' part whose amplitude is \(O(\lambda)\) as \(\lambda\to 0\). Here, the key issue is to determine the effect of the normal-form breaking terms that effectively couple the separate hyperbolic and elliptic linear dynamics.