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"Tears of the heart" is a hyperbolic polycycle formed by three separatrix connections of two saddles. It is met in generic 3-parameter families of planar vector fields. In [arXiv:1506.06797], it was discovered that generically, the…
We study bifurcations in finite-parameter families of vector fields on $S^2$. Recent papers by Yu. Ilyashenko, N. Goncharuk, Yu. Kudryashov, I. Schurov, and N. Solodovnikov provide examples of (locally generic) structurally unstable…
Recent studies of topologically generic unfoldings of vector fields featuring a "tears of the heart" polycycle with one internal and one external winding separatrix have shown that, in a special one-parameter subfamily where the "heart" is…
In this paper new numerical invariants of structurally unstable vector fields in the plane are found. One of the main tools is an improved asymptotics of sparkling saddle connections that occur when a separatrix loop of a hyperbolic saddle…
In this paper we extend three results about polycycles (also known as graphs) of planar smooth vector field to planar non-smooth vector fields (also known as piecewise vector fields, or Filippov systems). The polycycles considered here may…
This paper is concerned with the local bifurcation analysis around typical singularities of piecewise smooth planar dynamical systems. Three-parameter families of a class of non$-$smooth vector fields are studied and the tridimensional…
This paper presents results concerning bifurcations of 2D piecewise-smooth dynamical systems governed by vector fields. Generic three-parameter families of a class of Non-Smooth Vector Fields are studied and the bifurcation diagrams are…
We study some global aspects of the bifurcation of an equivariant family of volume-contracting vector fields on the three-dimensional sphere. When part of the symmetry is broken, the vector fields exhibit Bykov cycles. Close to the…
This paper presents results concerning bifurcations of 2D piecewise-smooth vector fields. In particular, the generic unfoldings of codimension three fold-addle singularities of Filippov systems, where a boundary-saddle and a fold coincide,…
We study bifurcations of vector fields on 2-manifolds with handles in generic one-parameter families unfolding vector fields with a separatrix loop of a hyperbolic saddle. These bifurcations can differ drastically from the analogous…
This paper presents results concerning bifurcations of 2D piecewise-smooth dynamical systems governed by vector fields. Generic three parameter families of a class of Non-Smooth Vector Fields are studied and its bifurcation diagrams are…
There are few explicit examples in the literature of vector fields exhibiting complex dynamics that may be proved analytically. This paper reports numerical experiments performed for an explicit two-parameter family of vector fields…
We classify global bifurcations in generic one-parameter local families of \vfs on $S^2$ with a parabolic cycle. The classification is quite different from the classical results presented in monographs on the bifurcation theory. As a by…
In this paper the structural stability of generic families of vector fields of the PC-HC class on the two-dimensional sphere $S^2$ is proved. A classification of these families up to moderate equivalence in neighborhoods of their large…
In this paper we contribute to qualitative and geometric analysis of planar piecewise smooth vector fields, which consist of two smooth vector fields separated by the straight line $y=0$ and sharing the origin as a non-degenerate…
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…
This paper addresses openness, density and structural stability conditions of one-parameter families of 3D piecewise smooth vector fields (PSVFs) defined around typical singularities. Our treatment is local and the switching set, $M$, is a…
There are few explicit examples in the literature of vector fields exhibiting complex dynamics that may be proved analytically. We construct explicitly a {two parameter family of vector fields} on the three-dimensional sphere $\EU^3$, whose…
In this paper we study the global dynamics of piecewise smooth vector fields defined in the two dimensional torus and sphere. We provide conditions under these families exhibits periodic and dense trajectories and we describe some global…
The space of degree d single-variable monic and centered complex polynomial vector fields can be decomposed into loci in which the vector fields have the same topological structure. We analyze the geometric structure of these loci and…