Branching of 2D tori off an equilibrium of a cosymmetric system (codimension-1 bifurcation).
The standard object for vector fields with a nontrivial cosymmetry is a continuous one-parameter family of equilibria. Characteristically, the stability spectrum of equilibrium varies along such a family, though the spectrum always contains a zero point. Consequently, in the general position a family consists of stable and unstable arcs separated by boundary equilibria, which are neutrally stable in the linear approximation. In the present paper the central manifold method and the Lyapunov-Schmidt method are used to investigate the branching bifurcation of invariant two-dimensional tori in cosymmetric systems off a boundary equilibrium whose spectrum contains, besides the requisite point 0, two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues. A number of new effects, as compared with the classic case of an isolated equilibrium, are found: the bifurcation studied has codimension 1 (2 for an isolated equilibrium); it is accompanied by a branching bifurcation of a normal limit cycle; and, a stable arc can be created on an unstable arc. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Kurakin
L. G.
LG
Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Rostov University, ul. Zorge 5, 344090, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Yudovich
V. I.
VI