Unfoldings of saddle-nodes and their Dulac time
Abstract
In this paper we study unfoldings of saddle-nodes and their Dulac time. By unfolding a saddle-node, saddles and nodes appear. In the first result (Theorem A) we prove uniform regularity by which orbits and their derivatives arrive at a node. Uniformity is with respect to all parameters including the unfolding parameter bringing the node to a saddle-node and a parameter belonging to a space of functions. In the second part, we apply this first result for proving a regularity result (Theorem B) on the Dulac time (time of Dulac map) of an unfolding of a saddle-node. This result is a building block in the study of bifurcations of critical periods in a neighbourhood of a polycycle. Finally, we apply Theorems A and B to the study of critical periods of the Loud family of quadratic centers and we prove that no bifurcation occurs for certain values of the parameters (Theorem C).
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@article{arxiv.1503.04629,
title = {Unfoldings of saddle-nodes and their Dulac time},
author = {Pavao Mardesić and David Marín and Mariana Saavedra and Jordi Villadelprat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04629},
year = {2015}
}