Bifurcation and coalescence of a plethora of homoclinic orbits for a Hamiltonian system

DOI10.1007/BF02218892zbMath0854.34047OpenAlexW2042338802MaRDI QIDQ1916001

Alan R. Champneys, John F. Toland, Boris Buffoni

Publication date: 28 August 1996

Published in: Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02218892

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric solutions bifurcation homoclinic solutions turning point reversible Hamiltonian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37)

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