Y. Zhang and M. Golubitsky

Periodically forced Hopf bifurcation

SIAM J. Appl. Dynam. Sys. 10 (2011) 1272-1306.


We study a periodically forced system of ODEs near a Hopf bifurcation point where the forcing has small amplitude epsilon and frequency omega_F near the Hopf frequency omega_H. We assume that in this system only the forcing frequency is varied and we determine all small amplitude periodic solutions of the forced system that have frequency omega_F. In other words, we aim to examine the influence of the forcing frequency omega_F on the number of periodic solutions to the forced system with frequency omega_F. This problem is complicated because of the existence of three small parameters: the amplitude of the forcing epsilon, the deviation of the bifurcation parameter from the point of Hopf bifurcation lambda, and the relative deviation of the forcing frequency from the Hopf frequency omega = 1- omega_H/omega_F. Our results are presented in terms of bifurcation diagrams of amplitude of periodic solution versus omega for fixed epsilon and lambda.