Scaling of saddle-node bifurcations: degeneracies and rapid quantitative changes

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/4/045101zbMATH Open1200.37042arXiv0807.1546OpenAlexW1981169260MaRDI QIDQ3600533FDOQ3600533

Christian Kuehn

Publication date: 10 February 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The scaling of the time delay near a "bottleneck" of a generic saddle-node bifurcation is well-known to be given by an inverse square-root law. We extend the analysis to several non-generic cases for smooth vector fields. We proceed to investigate $C^0$ vector fields. Our main result is a new phenomenon in two-parameter families having a saddle-node bifurcation upon changing the first parameter. We find distinct scalings for different values of the second parameter ranging from power laws with exponents in (0,1) to scalings given by O(1). We illustrate this rapid quantitative change of the scaling law by a an overdamped pendulum with varying length.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1546

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Bifurcations of singular points in dynamical systems (37G10)

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