Bifurcation and coalescence of a plethora of homoclinic orbits for a Hamiltonian system

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-279

  Buffoni, B ^a   Champneys, A R ^a,b   Toland, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Dynamical systems; Elastic struts; Hamiltonian systems; Homoclinic orbits; Water waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349120754     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02218892     Document Type: Article

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