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Tangencies between stable and unstable manifolds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
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.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 121 , Issue 1-2 , 1992 , pp. 73 - 90
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992
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