Hopf-transcritical bifurcation in retarded functional differential equations Original Research Article

Firstly, we analyze a codimension-two unfolding for the Hopf-transcritical bifurcation, and give complete bifurcation diagrams and phase portraits. In particular, we express explicitly the heteroclinic bifurcation curve, and obtain conditions under which the secondary bifurcation periodic solutions and the heteroclinic orbit are stable. Secondly, we show how to reduce general retarded functional differential equation, with perturbation parameters near the critical point of the Hopf-transcritical bifurcation, to a 3-dimensional ordinary differential equation which is restricted on the center manifold up to the third order with unfolding parameters, and further reduce it to a 2-dimensional amplitude system, where these unfolding parameters can be expressed by those original perturbation parameters. Finally, we apply the general results to the van der Pol’s equation with delayed feedback, and obtain the existence of stable or unstable equilibria, periodic solutions and quasi-periodic solutions.