Bifurcation of a homoclinic orbit with a saddle-node equilibrium (Q803618)

One studies the codimension two unfolding of an orbit \(\Gamma_ 0\) homoclinic to a saddle-node equilibrium in \({\mathbb{R}}^ d\). The eigenvalues of the equilibrium are supposed to be positive and negative real parts, except for a simple eigenvalue \(\lambda_ 0=0\). Several new methods are employed. The bifurcation diagram is obtained by the bifurcation function which is derived by the method of Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition. The idea of exponential trichotomy is employed to study the linearized equation around \(\Gamma_ 0.\) The method of cross sections and Poincaré mappings are used to study the bifurcation of the periodic orbits from \(\Gamma_ 0.\) Under the Poincaré mapping, submanifolds of certain type, called the u- slices can be found to be fixed and hence bifurcation of periodic orbits is proved.