New Elements of Analysis of a Degenerate Chenciner Bifurcation

Abstract

A new transformation of parameters for generic discrete-time dynamical systems with two independent parameters is defined, for when the degeneracy occurs. Here the classical transformation of parameters (α1,α2)→(β1,β2) is not longer regular at (0,0); therefore, implicit function theorem (IFT) cannot be applied around the origin, and a new transformation is necessary. The approach in this article to a case of Chenciner bifurcation is theoretical, but it can provide an answer for a number of applications of dynamical systems. We studied the bifurcation scenario and found out that, by this transformation, four different bifurcation diagrams are obtained, and the non-degenerate Chenciner bifurcation can be described by two bifurcation diagrams.