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Pseudo-simple heteroclinic cycles in $R^4$

Chaotic Dynamics 2018-05-09 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study pseudo-simple heteroclinic cycles for a Γ\Gamma-equivariant system in R4R^4 with finite ΓO(4)\Gamma\subset O(4), and their nearby dynamics. In particular, in a first step towards a full classification - analogous to that which exists already for the class of simple cycles - we identify all finite subgroups of O(4)O(4) admitting pseudo-simple cycles. To this end we introduce a constructive method to build equivariant dynamical systems possessing a robust heteroclinic cycle. Extending a previous study we also investigate the existence of periodic orbits close to a pseudo-simple cycle, which depends on the symmetry groups of equilibria in the cycle. Moreover, we identify subgroups ΓO(4)\Gamma\subset O(4), Γ⊄SO(4)\Gamma\not\subset SO(4), admitting fragmentarily asymptotically stable pseudo-simple heteroclinic cycles. (It has been previously shown that for ΓSO(4)\Gamma\subset SO(4) pseudo-simple cycles generically are completely unstable.) Finally, we study a generalized heteroclinic cycle, which involves a pseudo-simple cycle as a subset.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1702.08731,
  title  = {Pseudo-simple heteroclinic cycles in $R^4$},
  author = {Pascal Chossat and Alexander Lohse and Olga Podvigina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08731},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

49 pages, 7 figures

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