Heteroclinic cycles arising in generic unfoldings of nilpotent singularities

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 999-1028

  Barrientos, Pablo G ^a   Ibáñez, Santiago ^a   Rodríguez, J Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bifocal homoclinic orbits; Bykov cycles; Shil'nikov homoclinic orbits; Unfoldings of singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155123072     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10884-011-9230-5     Document Type: Article

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