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In this paper, we investigate the mathematical analysis of a mathematical model describing the virotherapy treatment of a cancer with logistic growth and the effect of viral cycle presented by a time delay. The cancer population size is divided into uninfected and infected compartments. Depending on time delay, we prove the positivity and boundedness and the stability of equilibria. We give conditions on which the viral cycle leads to “Jeff’s phenomenon” observed in laboratory and causes oscillations in cancer size via Hopf bifurcation theory. We establish an algorithm that determines the bifurcation elements via center manifold and normal form theories. We give conditions which lead to a supercritical or subcritical bifurcation. We end with numerical simulations illustrating our theoretical results.

Bursting behavior is one of the most important firing activities of neural system and plays an important role in signal encoding and transmission. In the present paper, a neural network with delay coupling is modeled to investigate the generation mechanism of bursting behavior. The Andronov-Hopf bifurcation is firstly studied and then the degenerated Andronov-Hopf bifurcation, namely Bautin bifurcation, is analyzed with the external input varying. Classifying dynamics in the neighborhood of the Bautin bifurcation, we obtain the bifurcation sets where the supercritical/subcritical Andronov-Hopf, or the fold limit cycle bifurcation may happen in the system under consideration. For a periodic disturbance occurring in the neighborhood of the Bautin bifurcation, it is seen that the Andronov-Hopf bifurcation and fold limit cycle bifurcation may lead to the transition from quiescent state to firing activities. Complex bursting phenomena, including Hopf/Hopf bursting, Hopf/Fold cycle bursting, SubHopf/Hopf bursting and SubHopf/Fold cycle bursting are found in the firing area. The results show that the dynamical properties of different burstings are related to the dynamical behaviors derived from the bifurcations of the system. Finally, it is seen that the bursting disappears but the periodic spiking appears in the delayed neural network for large values of delay.

This paper investigates the cosmological dynamics of the Hessence scalar field coupled with the dark matter in the background of the teleparallel gravity. We have assumed that the potential of the scalar field is exponential in nature whereas the $f(T)$ appearing in the teleparallel theory has the form $f(T)=\beta {(-T)}^{\frac{1}{2}}$. The field equations of this system reduce to a nonlinear autonomous system and dynamical system analysis is then performed. Due to the nonlinearity and the existence of multiple zero eigenvalues, the traditional procedures of analysis break down. So some novel technique is required. One of the latest such techniques is the invariant manifold theory. By the application of this theory, one projects the variables linked with the zero eigenvalues onto the variables linked with the nonzero eigenvalues to compute the center manifolds and the reduced systems associated with the critical points. These reduced systems reflect the nature of the whole dynamical systems. They also have less dimension and are often simple in nature. Hence, it is possible to solve them directly. In this paper, we work exactly in this spirit and find the center manifolds and solve the corresponding reduced system for some of the critical points associated with the dynamical system. We discover some interesting results namely that there are certain bounds on the interaction term $\delta$ which asserts the stability of the systems. We also present various stability diagrams of the reduced systems. An asymptotic analysis is then done for the critical points at infinity. Finally, we discuss the cosmological interpretation of our results.

With both analytical and numerical methods, local dynamic behaviors including stability and Hopf bifurcation of a new four-dimensional hyper-chaotic system are studied in this paper. All the equilibrium points and their stability conditions are obtained with the Routh–Hurwitz criterion. It is shown that there may exist one, two, or three equilibrium points for different system parameters. Via Hopf bifurcation theory, parameter conditions leading to Hopf bifurcation is presented. With the aid of center manifold and the first Lyapunov coefficient, it is also presented that the Hopf bifurcation is supercritical for some certain parameters. Finally, numerical simulations are given to confirm the analytical results and demonstrate the chaotic attractors of this system. It is also shown that the system may evolve chaotic motions through periodic bifurcations or intermittence chaos while the system parameters vary.

The fold-flip bifurcation occurs if a map has a fixed point with multipliers +1 and -1 simultaneously. In this paper the normal form of this singularity is calculated explicitly. Both local and global bifurcations of the unfolding are analyzed by exploring a close relationship between the derived normal form and the truncated amplitude system for the fold-Hopf bifurcation of ODEs. Two examples are presented, the generalized Hénon map and an extension of the Lorenz-84 model. In the latter example the first-, second- and third-order derivatives of the Poincaré map are computed using variational equations to find the normal form coefficients.

Simple computational formulas are derived for the two-, three-, and four-order coefficients of the smooth normal form on the center manifold at the Bogdanov–Takens (nonsemisimple double-zero) bifurcation for n-dimensional systems with arbitrary n ≥ 2. These formulas are equally suitable for both symbolic and numerical evaluation and allow one to classify all codim 3 Bogdanov–Takens bifurcations in generic multidimensional ODEs. They are also applicable to systems with symmetries. We perform no preliminary linear transformations but use only critical (generalized) eigenvectors of the linearization matrix and its transpose. The derivation combines the approximation of the center manifold with the normalization on it. Three known models are used as test examples to demonstrate advantages of the method.

In this paper, an oscillator with time delayed velocity feedback controls is studied in detail. Particular attention is given to internal double-Hopf bifurcation with an external exciting force. Linear analysis is used to find the critical conditions under which double-Hopf bifurcation occurs. Then center manifold theory is applied to obtain an ODE system described on a four-dimensional center manifold. Further, the technique of multiple-time scales is employed to find the approximate solutions of periodic and quasi-periodic motions. Finally, numerical simulation results are presented to not only validate the analytical predictions, but also show chaotic motions for some certain parameter values.

We consider the existence and stability of multibump solutions of a class of integral-differential equations modeling a single layer of homogeneous neural network with both excitatory and inhibitory neurons. The existence results are obtained by combining several shifts of a one-bump solution. Dynamical properties are obtained by considering the equation as an infinite-dimensional dynamical system and the spectrum of multibump solutions in terms of the weight functions. The center manifold theory and its foliation are used to show exponential stability with asymptotic phase for multibump solutions. Numerical results for some possible bifurcation phenomena are also presented.

This paper is concerned with a novel four-dimensional continuous autonomous hyperchaotic system, which is obtained by adding a simple dynamical state-feedback controller to a Lorenz-like three-dimensional autonomous chaotic system. This new system contains three parameters and each equation of the system has one quadratic cross-product term. Some basic properties of the system are studied first. Its complex dynamic behaviors are then analyzed by means of Lyapunov exponent (LE) spectrum, bifurcation diagrams, phase portraits and Poincaré sections. It is shown that the system has several large hyperchaotic regions. When the system is evolving in a hyperchaotic region, the two positive LEs are both large, which can be larger than 1 if the system parameters are taken appropriately. The pitchfork bifurcation of the system is finally analyzed by using the center manifold theorem.

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solutions u(x,t) of the Swift–Hohenberg equation with quintic nonlinearity on a one-dimensional domain (0, L). With α and the length L of the domain regarded as bifurcation parameters, branches of nontrivial solutions bifurcating from the trivial solution at certain points are shown. Local behavior of these branches are also studied. Global bounds for the solutions u(x,t) are established and then the global attractor is investigated. Finally, with the help of a center manifold analysis, two types of structures in the bifurcation diagrams are presented when the bifurcation points are closer, and their stabilities are analyzed.

Given an m-parameterized family of n-dimensional vector fields, such that: (i) for some value of the parameters, the family has an equilibrium point, (ii) its linearization has a double zero eigenvalue and no other eigenvalue on the imaginary axis, sufficient conditions on the vector field are given such that the dynamics on the two-dimensional center manifold is locally topologically equivalent to the versal deformation of the planar Takens–Bogdanov bifurcation.

In neural processing information, when we consider the finite propagation speed of signals in synapses, a time delay signal self-feedback mechanism is introduced into the well-known Rose–Hindmarsh Model. The Fold–Hopf bifurcation of this model is analyzed near equilibria. To discuss the singularity of this Codim-2 bifurcation, we discuss the normal form near the Fold–Hopf points on the center manifold. Bifurcations are studied and the stability is investigated by classifying neighborhood regimes near the Fold–Hopf points. Finally, as one of the most important electrical behaviors in neurons, the complex bursting-spiking firing modes associated with bifurcations are illustrated by numerical simulations.

For the Lax KdV5 equation and the KdV–Sawada–Kotera–Ramani equation, their corresponding four-dimensional traveling wave systems are studied by using Congrove's method. Exact explicit gap soliton, embedded soliton, periodic and quasi-periodic wave solutions are obtained. The existence of homoclinic manifolds to three kinds of equilibria including a hyperbolic equilibrium, a center-saddle and an equilibrium with zero pair of eigenvalues is revealed. The bifurcation conditions of equilibria are given.

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a center on a local center manifold for three 4-parameter families of quadratic systems on ℝ³. We also give a positive answer to an open question posed in [Dias & Mello, 2010] related to similar systems.

An explicit, computationally efficient, recursive formula is presented for computing the normal form and center manifold of general n-dimensional systems associated with Hopf bifurcation. Maple program is developed based on the analytical formulas, and shown to be computationally efficient, using two examples.

In this paper, a three-species predator–prey system with diffusion and two delays is investigated. By taking the sum of two delays as a bifurcation parameter, it is found that the spatially homogeneous Hopf bifurcation can occur as the sum of two delays crosses a critical value. The direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solution are obtained by employing the center manifold theorem and the normal form theory. In addition, some numerical simulations are also given to illustrate the theoretical analysis.

An improved homoclinic predictor at a generic codim 2 Bogdanov–Takens (BT) bifucation is derived. We use the classical "blow-up" technique to reduce the canonical smooth normal form near a generic BT bifurcation to a perturbed Hamiltonian system. With a simple perturbation method, we derive explicit first- and second-order corrections of the unperturbed homoclinic orbit and parameter value. To obtain the normal form on the center manifold, we apply the standard parameter-dependent center manifold reduction combined with the normalization, that is based on the Fredholm solvability of the homological equation. By systematically solving all linear systems appearing from the homological equation, we remove an ambiguity in the parameter transformation existing in the literature. The actual implementation of the improved predictor in MatCont and numerical examples illustrating its efficiency are discussed.

In this paper, we show that a simple three-dimensional quadratic vector field can have at least seven small-amplitude limit cycles, bifurcating from a Hopf critical point. This result is surprisingly higher than the Bautin's result for quadratic planar vector fields which can only have three small-amplitude limit cycles bifurcating from an elementary focus or an elementary center. The methods used in this paper include computing focus values, and solving multivariate polynomial systems using modular regular chains. In order to obtain higher-order focus values for nonplanar dynamical systems, computationally efficient approaches combined with center manifold computation must be adopted. A recently developed explicit, recursive formula and Maple program for computing the normal form and center manifold of general n-dimensional systems is applied to compute the focus values of the three-dimensional vector field.

This paper is concerned with bifurcation and stability in an autoimmune model, which was established to study an important phenomenon — blips arising from such models. This model has two equilibrium solutions, disease-free equilibrium and disease equilibrium. The positivity of the solutions of the model and the global stability of the disease-free equilibrium have been proved. In this paper, we particularly focus on Hopf bifurcation which occurs from the disease equilibrium. We present a detailed study on the use of center manifold theory and normal form theory, and derive the normal form associated with Hopf bifurcation, from which the approximate amplitude of the bifurcating limit cycles and their stability conditions are obtained. Particular attention is also paid to the bifurcation of multiple limit cycles arising from generalized Hopf bifurcation, which may yield bistable phenomenon involving equilibrium and oscillating motion. This result may explain some complex dynamical behavior in real biological systems. Numerical simulations are compared with the analytical predictions to show a very good agreement.

In this paper, we consider the exact explicit solutions for the famous generalized Hénon–Heiles (H–H) system. Corresponding to the three integrable cases, on the basis of the investigation of the dynamical behavior and level curves of the planar dynamical systems, we find all possible explicit exact parametric representations of solutions in the invariant manifolds of equilibrium points in the four-dimensional phase space. These solutions contain quasi-periodic solutions, homoclinic solutions, periodic solutions as well as blow-up solutions. Therefore, we answer the question: what are the flows in the center manifolds and homoclinic manifolds of the generalized Hénon–Heiles (H–H) system. As an application of the above results, we consider the traveling wave solutions for the coupled $(n+1)$-dimensional Klein–Gordon–Schrödinger Equations with quadratic power nonlinearity.