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A workshop on Singularities, Bifuraction and Dynamics was held at Warwick in July 1989, as part of a year-long symposium on Singularity Theory and its applications. The proceedings fall into two halves: Volume I mainly on connections with algebraic geometry and volume II on connections with dynamical systems theory, bifurcation theory and applications in the sciences. The papers are original research, stimulated by the symposium and workshop: All have been refereed and none will appear elsewhere. The main topic of volume II is new methods for the study of bifurcations in nonlinear dynamical systems, and applications of these.
List of contents
Scaling Laws and Bifurcation.- Bifurcation from a manifold.- Structurally stable heteroclinic cycles in a system with O(3) symmetry.- Boundary conditions as symmetry constraints.- Equivariant bifurcations and morsifications for finite groups.- On a codimension-four bifurcation occurring in optical bistability.- The center manifold for delay equations in the light of suns and stars.- Local structure of equivariant dynamics.- On the bifurcations of subharmonics in reversible systems.- Classification of symmetric caustics I: symplectic equivalence.- Symplectic singularities and optical diffraction.- Dynamics near steady state bifurcations in problems with spherical symmetry.- Caustics in time reversible hamiltonian systems.- Some complex differential equations arising in telecommunications.- Classification of two-parameter bifurcations.- Versal deformations of infinitesimally symplectic transformations with antisymplectic involutions.
About the author
Mark Roberts, geboren 1961 in Liverpool, machte sich zunächst als preisgekrönter Bühnenautor einen Namen, bevor er Romane für Jugendliche zu schreiben begann.
Ian Stewart, geb. 1945, ist der beliebteste Mathematik-Professor Großbritanniens. Seit Jahrzehnten bemüht er sich erfolgreich, seine Wissenschaft zu popularisieren. Er studierte Mathematik in Cambridge und promovierte an der Universität Warwick. Dort ist er heute Professor für Mathematik und Direktor des Mathematics Awareness Center. Seit 2001 ist Stewart zudem Mitglied der Royal Society. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Coventry.
