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Stable and non-symmetric pitchfork bifurcations

Dynamical Systems 2018-11-09 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we present a criterion for pitchfork bifurcation of smooth vector fields based on a topological argument. Our result expands Rajapakse and Smale's result \cite{RS2} significantly. Based on our criterion, we present a class of families of non-symmetric vector fields undergoing a pitchfork bifurcation.

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@article{arxiv.1804.03264,
  title  = {Stable and non-symmetric pitchfork bifurcations},
  author = {Enrique Pujals and Michael Shub and Yun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03264},
  year   = {2018}
}
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