Imperfection sensitivity analysis of hill-top branching with many symmetric bifurcation points

Imperfection sensitivity analysis of hill-top branching with many symmetric bifurcation points

Imperfection sensitivity properties are derived for finite dimensional elastic conservative systems exhibiting hill-top branching at which arbitrary many bifurcation points coincide with a limit point. The critical load at a hill-top branching point is demonstrated to be insensitive to initial imperfections when all the bifurcation points are individually symmetric. Therefore, it is not dangero...

Curves with many points

Introduction. Let C be a (smooth, projective, absolutely irreducible) curve of genus g > 2 over a number field K. Faltings [Fa1, Fa2] proved that the set C(K) of K-rational points of C is finite, as conjectured by Mordell. The proof can even yield an effective upper bound on the size #C(K) of this set (though not, in general, a provably complete list of points); but this bound depends on the ar...

Imperfection-sensitivity and Catastrophe Theory

Calculating Bifurcation Points with Guaranteed Accuracy

This paper presents a method of calculating an interval including a bifurcation point. Turning points, simple bifurcation points, symmetry breaking bifurcation points and hysteresis points are calculated with guaranteed accuracy by the extended systems for them and by the Krawczyk-based interval validation method. Taking several examples, the results of validation are also presented. key words:...

A Study of the Rimmer Bifurcation of Symmetric Fixed Points of Reversible Diffeomorphisms

We prove that the study of Rimmer bifurcation of symmetric fixed points in two–dimensional discrete reversible dynamical systems can be achieved analysing either bifurcation of critical points of a symmetric Hamiltonian function or the bifurcation of symmetric equilibrium points for a nonconservative reversible vector field. We give the normal forms for generating functions of area preserving r...