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The bifurcation diagram of cubic polynomial vector fields on $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1$

Dynamical Systems 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

In this paper we give the bifurcation diagram of the family of cubic vector fields z˙=z3+ϵ1z+ϵ0\dot z=z^3+ \epsilon_1z+\epsilon_0 for zCP1z\in \mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1, depending on the values of ϵ1,ϵ0C\epsilon_1,\epsilon_0\in\mathbb{C}. The bifurcation diagram is in R4\mathbb{R}^4, but its conic structure allows describing it for parameter values in S3\mathbb{S}^3. There are two open simply connected regions of structurally stable vector fields separated by surfaces corresponding to bifurcations of homoclinic connections between two separatrices of the pole at infinity. These branch from the codimension 2 curve of double singular points. We also explain the bifurcation of homoclinic connection in terms of the description of Douady and Sentenac of polynomial vector fields.

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@article{arxiv.1506.07120,
  title  = {The bifurcation diagram of cubic polynomial vector fields on $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1$},
  author = {Christiane Rousseau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07120},
  year   = {2015}
}