Nonlinear patterns in urban crime: Hotspots, bifurcations, and suppression

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 462-483

  Shortt, M B ^a   Bertozzit, A L ^a   Brantingham, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcations and instability; Crime modeling; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE EQUATION; DEVELOPED MODEL; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; NONLINEAR PATTERN; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PATTERN FORMATION; PERTURBATIVE APPROACH; PITCHFORK BIFURCATIONS; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; STABLE STATE; SUPER-CRITICAL; TRANSCRITICAL BIFURCATION;

CRIME; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 77953272280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090759069     Document Type: Article

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