Hopf-Hopf bifurcation
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Curator: Dr. John Guckenheimer, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Curator: Dr. Yuri A. Kuznetsov, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
The Hopf-Hopf bifurcation is a bifurcation of an equilibrium point in a two-parameter family of autonomous ODEs at which the critical equilibrium has two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues. This phenomenon is also called the double-Hopf bifurcation.
The bifurcation point in the parameter plane lies at a transversal intersection of two curves of Andronov-Hopf bifurcations. Generically, two branches of torus bifurcations emanate from the Hopf-Hopf (HH) point. Depending on the system, other bifurcations occur for nearby parameter values, including bifurcations of Shilnikov's homoclinic orbits to the focus-focus equilibrium, and bifurcations of a heteroclinic structure connecting saddle limit cycles and equilibria.
This bifurcation, therefore, can imply a local birth of "chaos". Also quasi-periodicity is involved (Braaksma and Broer, 1982).
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Definition
Consider an autonomous system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs)
- (1)
depending on two parameters
, where
is smooth.
- Suppose that at
the system has an equilibrium
.
- Assume that its Jacobian matrix
has two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues
with
.
This codimension two bifurcation is
characterized by the conditions
and
and appears in open sets of two-parameter families of smooth ODEs. In such a family (1):
- two Andronov-Hopf bifurcation curves intersect transversally at
;
- two torus bifurcation curves emanate from the point
.
In a small fixed neighbourhood of
for parameter values sufficiently
close to
, the system has at most one equilibrium, which can
undergo the Andronov-Hopf bifurcations, producing limit cycles. Each
torus bifurcation of these limit cycles generates
an invariant two-dimensional torus with periodic or quasiperiodic orbits.
The 2D invariant torus can be accompanied by an invariant set resembling a 3D torus, which
can disappear via either a "heteroclinic destruction" or
a "blow-up". In the former case, various homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits connecting
the equilibrium and two cycles exist, while in the latter case, the invariant set hits
the boundary of any small fixed neighbourhood of
.
The complete bifurcation scenario is unknown.
Four-dimensional case
To describe the Hopf-Hopf bifurcation analytically, consider the system (1)
with
,
- (2)
.
If the following nondegeneracy conditions hold:
-
for integer
;
- the map
, where
are eigenvalues of the continuation of the critical equilibrium for small
such that
, is regular at
,
then this system is locally orbitally smoothly equivalent near the origin to the Poincare normal form
,
,
where
, and
are complex-valued smooth functions. The formulas for
and
are given below.
The normal form is particularly simple in polar coordinates
,
where it takes the form:
,
,
,
,
where
and the
-terms are
-periodic in
.
In general, the bifurcation diagram of the normal form depends on the
-terms, although some of its
features are determined by the truncated normal form:
,
,
,
,
where the first two equations are independent of the last two defining monotone rotations. Local bifurcation diagrams of the planar amplitude system
- (3)
satisfying some extra genericity conditions can be found in Guckenheimer and Holmes (1983, Sec. 7.5). Here two cases should be distinguished:
-
("simple case", no periodic orbits in the amplitude system);
-
("difficult case", periodic and heteroclinic orbits in the amplitude system are possible).
Each case includes many subcases depending on
.
The equilibrium
of the amplitude system (3) corresponds to the equilibrium
of the 4D-system (2). Nonzero equilibria
and
correspond to limit cycles, while positive equilibria
correspond to
invariant 2D tori. Limit cycles of the amplitude system correspond to invariant 3D tori. The appearance of an equilibrium
or
in the amplitude system corresponds to Andronov-Hopf bifurcation in (2), while branching of a
positive equilibrium from one of the above implies a torus bifurcation
of the corresponding limit cycle. In the "difficult case", heteroclinic bifurcation in the amplitude system (3)
suggests the breakdown of an invariant 3D torus and the appearance of chaotic invariant sets in the full 4D-system (2). Nearby, various homo- and heteroclinic
orbits connecting the equilibrium and saddle limit cycles exist (Guckenheimer and Holmes, 1983; Broer, 1983; Broer and Vegter, 1984).
Multidimensional case
In the
-dimensional case with
, the Jacobian
matrix
at the Hopf-Hopf bifurcation has
- two simple pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues
, as well as
-
eigenvalues with
, and
-
eigenvalues with
, with
.
According to the Center Manifold Theorem, there is a family of smooth
four-dimensional invariant manifolds
near the origin.
The
-dimensional system restricted on
is
four-dimensional, hence has the normal form above. Also compare with (Broer, 2003).
Cubic normal form coefficients
The cubic coefficients in the normal form can be computed for
as follows (Kuznetsov, 1999).
Write the Taylor expansion of
at
as
where
and
are the multilinear functions with components
,
,
where
.
Introduce two complex eigenvectors,
,
,
and two adjoint eigenvectors,
,
Normalize them such that
(The notation
denotes the inner product of two complex vectors.)
Compute
,
,
,
,
,
and then evaluate
,
,
,
.
The bifurcation software MATCONT computes these coefficients automatically.
Gavrilov normal form
To analyze bifurcations of 2D tori, one has to normalize the fourth- and fifth-order terms. The resulting normal form is not unique. If the following nondegeneracy conditions hold:
- (HH.0)
for integer
;
- (HH.1)
;
- (HH.2)
;
- (HH.3)
;
- (HH.4)
;
- (HH.5) the map
, where
are eigenvalues of the continuation of the critical equilibrium for small
such that
, is regular at
,
then system (2) is locally orbitally smoothly equivalent near the origin to the complex normal form (Gavrilov, 1980)
,
,
where
;
are complex-valued smooth functions such that
,
,
while
are real smooth functions. The formulas for
and
are lengthy and can be found in Kuznetsov (1999); MATCONT computes them automatically.
In the polar coordinates
, Gavrilov's normal form reads:
- (4)
where
and the
-terms are
-periodic in
.
The bifurcation diagram of this normal form also depends on the
-terms, but some of its
important features are determined by the fifth-order amplitude system
- (5)
Local bifurcation diagrams of this system satisfying some extra genericity conditions can be found in Kuznetsov (2004, Sec. 8.6.2).
In (5), the positive equilibrium exhibits the Andronov-Hopf bifurcation generating a limit cycle. This limit cycle corresponds to a 3D invariant torus in the truncated normal form (4). Taking into account the
-terms leads to the destruction of this torus, while a complicated invariant set close to it appears.
Other cases
Hopf-Hopf bifurcation occurs also in infinite-dimensional ODEs generated by PDEs and DDEs to which the Center Manifold Theorem applies.
References
- N.K. Gavrilov (1980) Bifurcations of an equilibrium with two pairs of pure imagianry roots. In: "Methods of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations", Gorkii, pp. 17-30 [in Russian].
- J. Guckenheimer and P. Holmes (1983) Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields. Springer.
- B.L.J. Braaksma and H.W. Broer (1982) , Quasi-periodic flow near a codimension one singularity of a divergence free vector field in dimension four. In: Bifurcation, Théorie Ergodique et Applications (Dijon, 1981), Astérisque, 98-99, 74-142.
- H.W. Broer (1983), Quasi-periodicity in local bifurcation theory, Nieuw Arch. Wisk. 4(1), 1-32. Reprinted in: Bifurcation Theory, Mechanics and Physics (eds. C.P. Bruter, A. Aragnol, A. Lichnérowicz), Reidel, 177-208.
- H.W. Broer and G. Vegter (1984) Subordinate Shilnikov bifurcations near some singularities of vector fields having low codimensions. Ergodic Theory Dynamical Sysems 4, 509-525.
- H.W. Broer (2003), Coupled Hopf-bifurcations: Persistent examples of n-quasiperiodicity given by families of 3-jets. Astérisque 286, 223-229.
- Yu.A. Kuznetsov (1999) Numerical normalization thechniques for all codim 2 bifurcations of equilibria in ODEs, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 36, 1104-1124.
- Yu.A. Kuznetsov (2004) Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory. Springer, 3rd edition.
External links
See also
Andronov-Hopf Bifurcation, Saddle-node Bifurcation, Saddle-node Bifurcation of Periodic Orbits, Bifurcations, Center Manifold Theorem, Dynamical Systems, Equilibria, MATCONT, Ordinary Differential Equations,
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