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- A Hopf bifurcation occurs when a fixed point of a dynamical system loses stability to
- • a limit cycle, in the case of a continuous system
- • an aperiodic orbit, in the case of a discrete map.
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- (e.g. Guckenheimer & Holmes "Nonlinear oscillations, dynamical systems and bifurcations of vector fields" Applied Maths. Sci., vol. 42, 1983)
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- It introduces a new frequency into the "flow" of the dynamical system.