Bifurcations of the forced van der Pol oscillator
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- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Mathematical Society (AMS) in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics
- Vol. 35 (4), 495-509
- https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/492551
Abstract
We discuss the bifurcations of the variational equation of the forced van der Pol oscillator and prove the existence of bifurcations of saddle connection type as postulated by M. L. Cartwright [4] and A. W. Gillies [5].Keywords
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