On the Stability of Equivariant Bifurcation Problems and Their Unfoldings

Abstract

AbstractIn their book Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory M. Golubitsky, I. Stewart and D. Schaeffer have introduced an equivariant version of Martinet's notion of V (for variety)-equivalence with parameter. In this paper we give a unified proof that, in this context, infinitesimal stability is equivalent to stability at the local level of germs and that stability in the unfolding category is equivalent to versality.