English

Computations for the first Lyapunov coefficient

Dynamical Systems 2026-04-27 v2

Abstract

These notes are a supplementary file to the paper Hopf bifurcations for HANDY-type models (M. Badiale and I. Cravero, under submission), providing full details of the computations developed in Section 4.2. The purpose of this supplement is to derive explicitly the first Lyapunov coefficient associated with a Hopf bifurcation, following the framework of Yu. A. Kuznetsov (Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory, Springer, 4th ed., 2023). We compute the multilinear forms BB and CC, the right and left eigenvectors and their normalization, and the resolvents A1A^{-1} and (2iω0IA)1(2i\omega_0 I - A)^{-1}. Using asymptotic expansions with respect to the small parameter ε\varepsilon, we derive explicit formulas for μ(ε)\mu(\varepsilon), ω0\omega_0, and the Lyapunov coefficient a(μ(ε),ε)a(\mu(\varepsilon),\varepsilon), which characterize the criticality of the Hopf bifurcation in the main model.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.08428,
  title  = {Computations for the first Lyapunov coefficient},
  author = {Marino Badiale and Isabella Cravero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08428},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages. Supplementary material to "Hopf bifurcations for HANDY-type models" v2: Corrected minor numerical and typographical errors in a few formulas; no changes to the results

R2 v1 2026-07-01T07:32:27.849Z