Bogdanov-Takens singularity in Van der Pol's oscillator with delayed feedback (Q878966)

The paper studies the local bifurcations of the classical Van der Pol equation with nonlinear delayed feedback \[ \ddot x+\varepsilon (x^2-1)\dot x+x =g(x(t-\tau)), \] where \(g(0)=0\). The main bifurcation parameters are \(k:=g'(0)\) and \(\tau\). For \(k=1/\varepsilon\) and \(\tau=\varepsilon\) the authors discover a Takens-Bogdanov bifurcation (plus additional structure because the origin is always a fixed point). Then the authors reduce the system to its normal form using the method of \textit{T. Faria} and \textit{L. Magalhaes} [J. Differ. Equations 122, No. 2, 201--224 (1995; Zbl 0836.34069)] for two cases: the generic case \(g''(0)\neq 0\), and the odd case \(g(x)=-g(-x)\) (with \(g'''(0)\neq0\)). The bifurcation diagrams are only sketched in the normal form parameters.