Normal forms, resonance and bifurcation analysis via the Carleman linearization (Q582428)

The authors give a new method for the determination of the normal form (NF) of a dynamical system and the coordinate transformation that is needed for the NF reduction. The method is based on the diagonalization of a Carleman linear approximation to the original nonlinear system. Moreover, the authors demonstrate the equivalence between the Carleman linearization and the NF of a general nonlinear dynamical system, and present a classification of the various types of bifurcation and the corresponding conditions to be satisfied by the coefficients of the characteristic polynomials of the Carleman matrices.