Preface |
Diffeomorphisms and flows / 1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Elementary dynamics of diffeomorphisms / 1.2: |
Definitions / 1.2.1: |
Diffeomorphisms of the circle / 1.2.2: |
Flows and differential equations / 1.3: |
Invariant sets / 1.4: |
Conjugacy / 1.5: |
Equivalence of flows / 1.6: |
Poincare maps and suspensions / 1.7: |
Periodic non-autonomous systems / 1.8: |
Hamiltonian flows and Poincare maps / 1.9: |
Exercises |
Local properties of flows and diffeomorphisms / 2: |
Hyperbolic linear diffeomorphisms and flows / 2.1: |
Hyperbolic non-linear fixed points / 2.2: |
Diffeomorphisms / 2.2.1: |
Flows / 2.2.2: |
Normal forms for vector fields / 2.3: |
Non-hyperbolic singular points of vector fields / 2.4: |
Normal forms for diffeomorphisms / 2.5: |
Time-dependent normal forms / 2.6: |
Centre manifolds / 2.7: |
Blowing-up techniques on R[superscript 2] / 2.8: |
Polar blowing-up / 2.8.1: |
Directional blowing-up / 2.8.2: |
Structural stability, hyperbolicity and homoclinic points / 3: |
Structural stability of linear systems / 3.1: |
Local structural stability / 3.2: |
Flows on two-dimensional manifolds / 3.3: |
Anosov diffeomorphisms / 3.4: |
Horseshoe diffeomorphisms / 3.5: |
The canonical example / 3.5.1: |
Dynamics on symbol sequences / 3.5.2: |
Symbolic dynamics for the horseshoe diffeomorphism / 3.5.3: |
Hyperbolic structure and basic sets / 3.6: |
Homoclinic points / 3.7: |
The Melnikov function / 3.8: |
Local bifurcations I: planar vector fields and diffeomorphisms on R / 4: |
Saddle-node and Hopf bifurcations / 4.1: |
Saddle-node bifurcation / 4.2.1: |
Hopf bifurcation / 4.2.2: |
Cusp and generalised Hopf bifurcations / 4.3: |
Cusp bifurcation / 4.3.1: |
Generalised Hopf bifurcations / 4.3.2: |
Diffeomorphisms on R / 4.4: |
D[subscript x]f(0) = +1: the fold bifurcation / 4.4.1: |
D[subscript x]f(0) = -1: the flip bifurcation / 4.4.2: |
The logistic map / 4.5: |
Local bifurcations II: diffeomorphisms on R[superscript 2] / 5: |
Arnold's circle map / 5.1: |
Irrational rotations / 5.3: |
Rational rotations and weak resonance / 5.4: |
Vector field approximations / 5.5: |
Irrational [beta] / 5.5.1: |
Rational [beta] = p/q, q [greater than or equal] 3 / 5.5.2: |
Rational [beta] = p/q, q = 1, 2 / 5.5.3: |
Equivariant versal unfoldings for vector field approximations / 5.6: |
q = 2 / 5.6.1: |
q = 3 / 5.6.2: |
q = 4 / 5.6.3: |
q [greater than or equal] 5 / 5.6.4: |
Unfoldings of rotations and shears / 5.7: |
Area-preserving maps and their perturbations / 6: |
Rational rotation numbers and Birkhoff periodic points / 6.1: |
The Poincare-Birkhoff Theorem / 6.2.1: |
Vector field approximations and island chains / 6.2.2: |
Irrational rotation numbers and the KAM Theorem / 6.3: |
The Aubry-Mather Theorem / 6.4: |
Invariant Cantor sets for homeomorphisms on S[superscript 1] / 6.4.1: |
Twist homeomorphisms and Mather sets / 6.4.2: |
Generic elliptic points / 6.5: |
Weakly dissipative systems and Birkhoff attractors / 6.6: |
Birkhoff periodic orbits and Hopf bifurcations / 6.7: |
Double invariant circle bifurcations in planar maps / 6.8: |
Hints for exercises |
References |
Index |
Preface |
Diffeomorphisms and flows / 1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Elementary dynamics of diffeomorphisms / 1.2: |
Definitions / 1.2.1: |
Diffeomorphisms of the circle / 1.2.2: |