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In this paper, we consider the Hamiltonian elliptic system in dimension two\begin{equation}\label{1.5}\aligned \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} -\epsilon^2\Delta u+V(x)u=g(v)\ & \text{in}\quad \mathbb{R}^2,\\ -\epsilon^2\Delta v+V(x)v=f(u)\ &…
We present a phenomenological description of the critical slowing down associated with period-doubling bifurcations in discrete dynamical systems. Starting from a local Taylor expansion around the fixed point and the bifurcation parameter,…