Bifurcation

Saddle-node bifurcation

The saddle-node bifurcation is perhaps the simplest example of a bifurcation in 1D. It involves the sudden appearance of a non-hyperbolic fixed point, which then splits into a stable and unstable node. The general form is1

which has fixed points

Bifurcation diagram


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Footnotes

  1. 2021. MATH3021: Nonlinear dynamics & chaos, p. 62