In systems that exhibit multistability, namely those that have more than one coexisting attractor, the basins of attraction evolve in specific ways with the creation of each new attractor. These multiple attractors can be created via different mechanisms. When an attractor is formed via a saddle-node bifurcation, the size of its basin increases as a power-law in the bifurcation parameter. In sy...

We report on experimental and theoretical studies of the fluctuation-induced escape time from a metastable state of a nanomechanical Duffing resonator in a cryogenic environment. By tuning in situ the nonlinear coefficient γ we could explore a wide range of the parameter space around the bifurcation point, where the metastable state becomes unstable. We measured in a relaxation process the dist...

Electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals exhibits a Hopf bifurcation to traveling rolls for a wide parameter range. The model normally used to describe electroconvection fails to predict this. A recent theoretical extension, the weak-electrolyte model, incorporates the dissociation-recombination reaction of the ionic dopant in the sample and does predict a Hopf bifurcation for a range of pa...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the bifurcation and chaotic behaviour in the two-parameter family of transcendental functions fλ,n(x) = λ x (ex+1)n , λ > 0, x ∈ R, n ∈ N\{1} which arises from the generating function of the generalized Apostol-type polynomials. The existence of the real fixed points of fλ,n(x) and their stability are studied analytically and the periodic points of fλ,n(x...

We investigate Turing bifurcations in a neural field model with one spatial dimension. For some parameter values the resulting Turing patterns are stable, while for others the patterns appear transiently. We show that this difference is due to the relative position in parameter space of the saddle-node bifurcation of a spatially periodic pattern and the Turing bifurcation point. By varying para...

We consider a reaction-diffusion system of activator-inhibitor or substratedepletion type which is subject to diffusion-driven instability if supplemented by pure Neumann boundary conditions. We show by a degree-theoretic approach that an obstacle (e.g. a unilateral membrane) modeled in terms of inequalities, introduces new bifurcation of spatial patterns in a parameter domain where the trivial...

Abstract. We study two-parameter bifurcation diagrams of the generalized Hénon map (GHM), that is known to describe dynamics of iterated maps near homoclinic and heteroclinic tangencies. We prove the nondegeneracy of codim 2 bifurcations of fixed points of GHM analytically and compute its various global and local bifurcation curves numerically. Special attention is given to the interpretation o...