Duffing-type Equations: Singular Points of Amplitude Profiles and Bifurcations

Abstract

We study the Duffing equation and its generalizations with polynomial nonlinearities. Recently, we have demonstrated that metamorphoses of the amplitude response curves, computed by asymptotic methods in implicit form as F (Ω, A) = 0, permit prediction of qualitative changes of dynamics occurring at singular points of the implicit curve F (Ω, A) = 0. In the present work we determine a global structure of singular points of the amplitude profiles computing bifurcation sets, i.e. sets containing all points in the parameter space for which the amplitude profile has a singular point. We connect our work with independent research on tangential points on amplitude profiles, associated with jump phenomena, characteristic for the Duffing equation. We also show that our techniques can be applied to solutions of form Ω± = f± (A), obtained within other asymptotic approaches.