Structural Stability, Catastrophe Theory, and Applied Mathematics

DOI10.1137/1019036zbMath0447.58010OpenAlexW1985882378MaRDI QIDQ3893007

René Thom

Publication date: 1977

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/1019036

zbMATH Keywords

plate tectonicsstructural stabilitycatastrophe theoryelementary catastrophe theorymorphogenetic processesdynamical bifurcation theoryHopf bifurcation from gradient-like to non-gradient-like flowLjapunov function bifurcationtopology of dynamical systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Catastrophe theory (58K35) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Geophysical solid mechanics (74L05) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99)

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