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Normal form (dynamical systems)

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In mathematics, the normal form of a dynamical system is a simplified form that can be useful in determining the system's behavior.

Normal forms are often used for determining local bifurcations in a system. All systems exhibiting a certain type of bifurcation are locally (around the equilibrium) topologically equivalent to the normal form of the bifurcation. For example, the normal form of a saddle-node bifurcation is where is the bifurcation parameter.

References

  • Guckenheimer, John; Holmes, Philip (1983), Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields, Springer, Section 3.3, ISBN 0-387-90819-6
  • Kuznetsov, Yuri A. (1998), Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory (Second ed.), Springer, Section 2.4, ISBN 0-387-98382-1
  • Murdock, James (2006). "Normal forms". Scholarpedia. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.1902. Retrieved 4 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  • Murdock, James (2003). Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-21785-7.