On the direction of pitchfork bifurcation

We present an algorithm for computing the direction of pitchfork bifurcation for two-point boundary value problems. The formula is rather involved, but its computational evaluation is quite feasible. As an application, we obtain a multiplicity result.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaojie Hou, Philip Korman, Yi Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Texas State University 2007-02-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
Subjects:
Online Access:http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/conf-proc/15/h2/abstr.html