“CROSSROAD AREA- DISSYMMETRICAL SPRING AREA — SYMMETRICAL SPRING AREA,” AND “DOUBLE CROSSROAD AREA — DOUBLE SPRING AREA” TRANSITIONS

Abstract

In a parameter plane, crossroad areas and spring areas are two typical organizations of fold and flip bifurcation curves centred at a fold cusp point. Till now only spring areas in a “symmetrical” configuration have been described. This letter introduces another type of spring area for which such a “symmetry” does not exist. It is called a dissymmetrical spring area. When a third parameter is varied, qualitative modifications of the parameter plane are considered, and an example of a two-dimensional diffeomorphism is given.