STEADY-STATE, HOPF AND STEADY-STATE-HOPF BIFURCATIONS IN DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO A DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATOR WITH DELAY FEEDBACK

Abstract

In this paper, employing the normal form theory of delay differential equations due to Faria and Magalhães, we present explicit formulas of the coefficients of a normal form associated with the flow on a center manifold with the unfolding for general delay differential equations under the cases of steady-state, Hopf and steady-state-Hopf singularities. The explicit conditions determining the transcritical and pitchfork bifurcations for steady-state singularity, determining the direction and stability of Hopf bifurcations, and determining the coefficients of a normal form with universal unfolding for steady-state-Hopf singularity up to third order are obtained. Using the obtained results, we give a complete description of bifurcation scenario of the damped harmonic oscillator with delay feedback near the zero equilibrium. Finally, numerical simulations are given to illustrate our theoretical results and some numerical extensions are obtained as a supplement to our theoretical analysis.