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Tangencies between stable and unstable manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Flaviano Battelli
Affiliation:
Istituto di Biomatematica, Università, Via Saffi 1, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
Kenneth J. Palmer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, U.S.A

Synopsis

In this paper perturbation theory is used to construct systems in four dimensions having two dimensional stable and unstable manifolds which touch along a homoclinic orbit but only with a second order contact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992

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