Narrow Results

This paper considers a class of three-dimensional systems constructed by rotating some planar symmetric polynomial vector fields. It shows that this class of systems has infinitely many distinct types of knotted periodic orbits, which lie on a family of invariant torus. For two three-dimensional systems, exact explicit parametric representations of the knotted periodic orbits are given. For their perturbed systems, the chaotic behavior is discussed by using two different methods.

We studied a three-dimensional autonomous polynomial equation. This equation is with a parameter, which we denote as μ. At μ = 0, the system has two saddles, the stable and unstable manifolds of which coincide. We present a comprehensive study on the dynamics of the system for small μ ≠ 0 in a small neighborhood of the unperturbed stable and unstable manifolds, where one of the heteroclinic connections of the two saddles are broken by small perturbations and strange attractors are created.