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We investigate planar piecewise-smooth vector fields with a discontinuity line, focusing on the bifurcation of crossing limit cycles that arise when one of the vector fields is translated along the discontinuity set. We establish…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lucas Queiroz Arakaki , Douglas Novaes , Paulo Santana

For a continuous map on the unit interval or circle, we define the bifurcation set to be the collection of those interval holes whose surviving set is sensitive to arbitrarily small changes of their position. By assuming a global…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Gabriel Fuhrmann , Maik Gröger , Alejandro Passeggi

In this work we consider a general non-autonomous hybrid system based on the integrate-and-fire model, widely used as simplified version of neuronal models and other types of excitable systems. Our unique assumption is that the system is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Albert Granados , Martin Krupa , Frédérique Clément

Non-smooth saddle-node bifurcations give rise to minimal sets of interesting geometry built of so-called strange non-chaotic attractors. We show that certain families of quasiperiodically driven logistic differential equations undergo a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Gabriel Fuhrmann

There exists a variety of physically interesting situations described by continuous maps that are nondifferentiable on some surface in phase space. Such systems exhibit novel types of bifurcations in which multiple coexisting attractors can…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Mitrajit Dutta , Helena E. Nusse , Edward Ott , James A. Yorke

We discuss the nonlinear phenomena of irreversible tipping for non-autonomous systems where time-varying inputs correspond to a smooth "parameter shift" from one asymptotic value to another. We express tipping in terms of pullback…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Peter Ashwin , Clare Perryman , Sebastian Wieczorek

The two-fold singularity has played a significant role in our understanding of uniqueness and stability in piecewise smooth dynamical systems. When a vector field is discontinuous at some hypersurface, it can become tangent to that surface…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Mike R. Jeffrey

The planar visible fold is a simple singularity in piecewise smooth systems. In this paper, we consider singularly perturbed systems that limit to this piecewise smooth bifurcation as the singular perturbation parameter $\epsilon\rightarrow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Kristian Uldall Kristiansen

An attractor of a piecewise-smooth continuous system of differential equations can bifurcate from a stable equilibrium to a more complicated invariant set when it collides with a switching manifold under parameter variation. Here numerical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-24 D. J. W. Simpson

We discuss tipping phenomena (critical transitions) in nonautonomous systems using an example of a bistable ecosystem model with environmental changes represented by time-varying parameters [Scheffer et al., Ecosystems, 11 (2008), pp.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Paul E. O'Keeffe , Sebastian Wieczorek

The cyclicity problem, crucial in analyzing planar vector fields, consists in estimating the number of limit cycles emanating from monodromic singularities. Traditionally, this estimation relies on Lyapunov coefficients. However, in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Douglas D. Novaes , Leandro A. Silva

This paper aims to explore the effect of $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetry on grazing-sliding bifurcations in planar Filippov systems. We consider the scenario where the unperturbed system is $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric and its subsystem exhibits a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Xingwu Chen , Zhihao Fang , Tao Li

Lubricated sliding contact between soft solids is an interesting topic in biomechanics and for the design of small-scale engineering devices. As a model of this mechanical set-up, two elastic nonlinear solids are considered jointed through…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 D. Bigoni , N. Bordignon , A. Piccolroaz , S. Stupkiewicz

An analysis of stick-slip behavior and convergence of trajectories in the feedback-controlled motion systems with discontinuous Coulomb friction is provided. A closed-form parameter-dependent stiction region, around an invariant equilibrium…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Michael Ruderman

In diverse physical systems stable oscillatory solutions devolve into more complicated dynamical behaviour through border-collision bifurcations. Mathematically these occur when a stable fixed point of a piecewise-smooth map collides with a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-22 David J. W. Simpson

This paper investigates the local behavior of 3D Filippov systems $Z=(X,Y)$, focusing on the dynamics around cusp-fold singularities. These singular points, characterized by cubic contact of vector field $X$ and quadratic contact of vector…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Oscar A. R. Cespedes , Rony Cristiano , Otávio M. L. Gomide

The interplay between bifurcations and random switching processes of vector fields is studied. More precisely, we provide a classification of piecewise deterministic Markov processes arising from stochastic switching dynamics near fold,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Tobias Hurth , Christian Kuehn

A tribological system consisting of two contacting blocks has been considered. One of them is arranged between two springs, the other is driven periodically. The kinetics of the system has been studied in the boundary friction mode, when an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-05 I. A. Lyashenko , A. M. Zaskoka

The limiting slow dynamics of slow-fast, piecewise-linear, continuous systems of ODEs occurs on critical manifolds that are piecewise-linear. At points of non-differentiability, such manifolds are not normally hyperbolic and so the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-16 David J. W. Simpson

Our context is Filippov systems defined on two-dimensional manifolds having a finite number of tangency points. We prove that topological transitivity is a necessary and sufficient condition for the occurrence of non-deterministic chaos…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Rodrigo D. Euzébio , Pedro G. Mattos , Régis Varão