Lin's method for heteroclinic chains involving periodic orbits

Author: Knobloch Jürgen   Rieß Thorsten  

Publisher: IOP Publishing

ISSN: 0951-7715

Source: Nonlinearity, Vol.23, Iss.1, 2010-01, pp. : 23-54

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Abstract

We present an extension of the theory known as Lin's method to heteroclinic chains that connect hyperbolic equilibria and hyperbolic periodic orbits. Based on the construction of a so-called Lin orbit, that is a sequence of continuous partial orbits that only have jumps in a certain prescribed linear subspace, estimates for these jumps are derived. We use the jump estimates to discuss bifurcation equations for homoclinic orbits near heteroclinic cycles between an equilibrium and a periodic orbit (EtoP cycles).