Codimension 3 b-t bifurcations in an epidemic model with a nonlinear incidence

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1107-1116

  Li, Chengzhi ^a,b   Li, Jianquan ^c   Ma, Zhien ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bogdanov Takens bifurcation; Codimension three; Epidemic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922784390     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.1107     Document Type: Article

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