- Hopf bifurcation
In
bifurcation theory a Hopf or Andronov-Hopf bifurcation is a local bifurcation in which a fixed point ofadynamical system loses stability as a pair of complex conjugateeigenvalues of thelinearization around the fixed point crossthe imaginary axis of thecomplex plane . Under reasonably genericassumptions about the dynamical system, we can expect to see a smallamplitudelimit cycle branching from the fixed point. The limit cycle is orbitally stable if acertain quantity called the first Lyapunov coefficient is negative, and the bifurcation is supercritical. Otherwise it is unstable and the bifurcation is subcritical.The normal form of a Hopf bifurcation is:
::
where are both complex and is aparameter. Write:: . The number is called the first Lyapunov coefficient.
* If is negative then there is a stable limit cycle for ::::where and . The bifurcation is then called supercritical.
* If is positive then there is an unstable limit cycle for . The bifurcation is called subcritical.Hopf bifurcations occur in the
Hodgkin-Huxley model for nervemembrane, theBelousov-Zhabotinsky reaction , theLorenz attractor and in the following simpler chemical system called theBrusselator as the parameter changes:::::The "Smallest Chemical Reaction System with Hopf Bifurcation" was found 1995 in Berlin, Germany.cite journal |author = Wilhelm, T.; Heinrich, R. |year = 1995 |title = Smallest chemical reaction system with Hopf bifurcation |journal = Journal of Mathematical Chemistry |volume = 17 |issue = 1 |pages = 1-14 |doi = 10.1007/BF01165134 |url=http://www.fli-leibniz.de/~wilhelm/JMC1995.pdf]
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References
*Steven H. Strogatz, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos", Addison Wesley publishing company, 1994.
*Yuri A. Kuznetsov, "Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory", Springer-Verlag, 2004, New York. ISBN 0-387-21906-4Links
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Reaction-diffusion systems
* [http://www.egwald.com/nonlineardynamics/bifurcations.php#hopfbifurcation The Hopf Bifurcation]
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Andronov-Hopf_bifurcation Andronov-Hopf bifurcation page] atScholarpedia
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