Isochron foliations and global bifurcations: a case study

The basins of attraction of periodic orbits or focus equilibria of a given vector field are foliated by forward-time isochrons, defined as all initial conditions that synchronize under the flow with a given phase. Similarly, backward-time isochrons of repelling periodic orbits or focus equilibria fo...

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Vydané v:Transactions of mathematics and its applications : a journal of the IMA Ročník 6; číslo 2; s. 1
Hlavní autori: Hannam, James, Krauskopf, Bernd, Osinga, Hinke M
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Oxford University Press 01.06.2022
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ISSN:2398-4945, 2398-4945
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Shrnutí:The basins of attraction of periodic orbits or focus equilibria of a given vector field are foliated by forward-time isochrons, defined as all initial conditions that synchronize under the flow with a given phase. Similarly, backward-time isochrons of repelling periodic orbits or focus equilibria foliate their respective basins of repulsion. We present a case study of a planar system that features a sequence of bifurcations, including a saddle-node bifurcation of periodic orbits, a homoclinic bifurcation and Hopf bifurcations, that change the nature and existence of periodic orbits. We explain how the basins and isochron foliations change throughout the sequence of bifurcations. In particular, we identify structurally stable tangencies between the foliations by forward-time and backward-time isochrons, which are curves in the plane, in regions of phase space where they exist simultaneously. Such tangencies are generically quadratic and associated with sharp turns of isochrons and phase sensitivity of the system. In contrast to the earlier reported cubic isochron foliation tangency (CIFT) mechanism, which generates a pair of tangency orbits, we find isochron foliation tangencies that occur along single specific orbits in the respective basin of attraction or repulsion. Moreover, the foliation tangencies we report arise from actual bifurcations of the system, while a CIFT is not associated with a topological change of the underlying phase portrait. The properties and interactions of isochron foliations are determined and illustrated by computing a representative number of forward-time and backward-time isochrons as arclength-parametrized curves with a boundary value problem set-up. Our algorithm for computing isochrons has been further refined and implemented in the Matlab package CoCo; it is made available as Matlab code in the supplementary material of this paper, together with a guide that walks the user through the computation of two specific isochron foliations.
ISSN:2398-4945
2398-4945
DOI:10.1093/imatrm/tnac002