P. Chossat and M. Golubitsky

Hopf Bifurcation in the Presence of Symmetry, Center Manifold and Liapunov-Schmidt Reduction

In: Oscillation, Bifurcation and Chaos (F.V. Atkinson, W.F. Langford and A.B. Mingarelli, eds.) CMS-AMS Conf. Proc. Ser. 8 (1987), AMS, Providence, 343-352.




Assume that the linear part of a vector field X is semisimple and has eigenvalues at +wi/-wi. We show that if the quadratic terms of X vanish when restricted to the center subspace, then to third order the Liapunov-Schmidt reduction for finding periodic solutions of X is already in Birkhoff normal form. Several examples of systems with symmetry that satisfy this hypothesis are discussed.