Homoclinic flip bifurcations accompanied by transcritical bifurcation (Q1938743)

The author investigates the bifurcation of a homoclinic loop with a nonhyperbolic equilibrium by constructing a suitable Poincaré map. Using the fundamental solutions to linear variational equations as an active coordinate system, he constructs a global map which is composed of a regular map in the tubular neighborhood of the homoclinic orbit and a singular map near the equilibrium. The bifurcation equation obtained is analyzed to find homoclinic and periodic orbits (Theorems 4.1 and 4.2) and heteroclinic orbits (Theorem 4.3).