An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

By: D. K. Arrowsmith, C. H. Place, Arrowsmith/Place

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Paperback | 8 September 1990

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Largely self-contained, this is an introduction to the mathematical structures underlying models of systems whose state changes with time, and which therefore may exhibit "chaotic behavior." The first portion of the book is based on lectures given at the University of London and covers the background to dynamical systems, the fundamental properties of such systems, the local bifurcation theory of flows and diffeomorphisms and the logistic map and area-preserving planar maps. The authors then go on to consider current research in this field such as the perturbation of area-preserving maps of the plane and the cylinder. The text contains many worked examples and exercises, many with hints. It will be a valuable first textbook for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics, physics, and engineering.

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' ... a book which can be recommended unreservedly ... the many exercises are particularly useful.' International Mathematical News

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Preface
Diffeomorphisms and flows	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Elementary dynamics of diffeomorphisms	p. 5
Definitions	p. 5
Diffeomorphisms of the circle	p. 6
Flows and differential equations	p. 11
Invariant sets	p. 16
Conjugacy	p. 20
Equivalence of flows	p. 28
Poincare maps and suspensions	p. 33
Periodic non-autonomous systems	p. 38
Hamiltonian flows and Poincare maps	p. 42
Exercises	p. 56
Local properties of flows and diffeomorphisms	p. 64
Hyperbolic linear diffeomorphisms and flows	p. 64
Hyperbolic non-linear fixed points	p. 67
Diffeomorphisms	p. 68
Flows	p. 69
Normal forms for vector fields	p. 72
Non-hyperbolic singular points of vector fields	p. 79
Normal forms for diffeomorphisms	p. 83
Time-dependent normal forms	p. 89
Centre manifolds	p. 93
Blowing-up techniques on R[superscript 2]	p. 102
Polar blowing-up	p. 102
Directional blowing-up	p. 105
Exercises	p. 108
Structural stability, hyperbolicity and homoclinic points	p. 119
Structural stability of linear systems	p. 120
Local structural stability	p. 123
Flows on two-dimensional manifolds	p. 125
Anosov diffeomorphisms	p. 132
Horseshoe diffeomorphisms	p. 138
The canonical example	p. 139
Dynamics on symbol sequences	p. 147
Symbolic dynamics for the horseshoe diffeomorphism	p. 149
Hyperbolic structure and basic sets	p. 154
Homoclinic points	p. 164
The Melnikov function	p. 170
Exercises	p. 180
Local bifurcations I: planar vector fields and diffeomorphisms on R	p. 190
Introduction	p. 190
Saddle-node and Hopf bifurcations	p. 199
Saddle-node bifurcation	p. 199
Hopf bifurcation	p. 203
Cusp and generalised Hopf bifurcations	p. 206
Cusp bifurcation	p. 206
Generalised Hopf bifurcations	p. 211
Diffeomorphisms on R	p. 215
D[subscript x]f(0) = +1: the fold bifurcation	p. 218
D[subscript x]f(0) = -1: the flip bifurcation	p. 221
The logistic map	p. 226
Exercises	p. 234
Local bifurcations II: diffeomorphisms on R[superscript 2]	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
Arnold's circle map	p. 248
Irrational rotations	p. 253
Rational rotations and weak resonance	p. 258
Vector field approximations	p. 262
Irrational [beta]	p. 262
Rational [beta] = p/q, q [greater than or equal] 3	p. 264
Rational [beta] = p/q, q = 1, 2	p. 268
Equivariant versal unfoldings for vector field approximations	p. 271
q = 2	p. 272
q = 3	p. 275
q = 4	p. 276
q [greater than or equal] 5	p. 282
Unfoldings of rotations and shears	p. 286
Exercises	p. 291
Area-preserving maps and their perturbations	p. 302
Introduction	p. 302
Rational rotation numbers and Birkhoff periodic points	p. 309
The Poincare-Birkhoff Theorem	p. 309
Vector field approximations and island chains	p. 310
Irrational rotation numbers and the KAM Theorem	p. 319
The Aubry-Mather Theorem	p. 332
Invariant Cantor sets for homeomorphisms on S[superscript 1]	p. 332
Twist homeomorphisms and Mather sets	p. 335
Generic elliptic points	p. 338
Weakly dissipative systems and Birkhoff attractors	p. 345
Birkhoff periodic orbits and Hopf bifurcations	p. 355
Double invariant circle bifurcations in planar maps	p. 368
Exercises	p. 379
Hints for exercises	p. 394
References	p. 413
Index	p. 417
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