Uncountably many cases of Filippov's sewed focus

The sewed focus is one of the singularities of planar piecewise smooth dynamical systems. Defined by Filippov in his book 'Differential Equations with Discontinuous Righthand Sides' (Kluwer, 1988), it consists of two invisible tangencies either side of the switching manifold. In the case o...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-06
Main Authors: Glendinning, Paul, Hogan, S John, Homer, Martin, Jeffrey, Mike R, Szalai, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Differential equations
Dynamical systems
Mathematical analysis
Orbits
Singularities
Topology
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Summary:The sewed focus is one of the singularities of planar piecewise smooth dynamical systems. Defined by Filippov in his book 'Differential Equations with Discontinuous Righthand Sides' (Kluwer, 1988), it consists of two invisible tangencies either side of the switching manifold. In the case of analytic focus-like behaviour, Filippov showed that the approach to the singularity is in infinite time. For the case of non-analytic focus-like behaviour, we show that the approach to the singularity can be in finite time. For the non-analytic sewed centre-focus, we show that there are uncountably many different topological types of local dynamics, including cases with infinitely many stable periodic orbits, and show how to create systems with periodic orbits intersecting any bounded symmetric closed set.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2306.09743