Bifurcation of a reversible Hamiltonian system from a fixed point with fourfold eigenvalue zero

Dynamical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-44

  Wagenknecht, Thomas ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THEOREM PROVING;

CATASTROPHE THEORY; FOURFOLD EIGENVALUE ZERO; REVERSIBLE HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM; SECOND ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0036523490     PISSN: 14689367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14689360110089831     Document Type: Article

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