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Hopf bifurcations

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The Complex Cubi-Quintic Ginzburg-Landau Equation: Hopf Bifurcations Yielding Traveling Waves, S.C. Mnacas, S. Roy Choudhury Mar 2007

The Complex Cubi-Quintic Ginzburg-Landau Equation: Hopf Bifurcations Yielding Traveling Waves, S.C. Mnacas, S. Roy Choudhury

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In this paper we use a traveling wave reduction or a so{called spatial approxima- tion to comprehensively investigate the periodic solutions of the complex cubic{quintic Ginzburg{Landau equation. The primary tools used here are Hopf bifurcation theory and perturbation theory. Explicit results are obtained for the post{bifurcation periodic orbits and their stability. Generalized and degenerate Hopf bifurcations are also brie y considered to track the emergence of global structure such as homoclinic orbits.