Graduate Course in Normal Forms, Limit Cycles, Desingularization and Bifurcations
Description
Following is a description of the topics:
- Regular and irregular singular points of linear differential equations. Classical Stokes phenomena.
- Nonlinear Stokes phenomena. Ecalle-Voronin moduli.
- Phragmen-Lindelof theorem for functional cochains. Galois groups and Stokes operators.
- Complex saddlenodes: analysis and topology.
- Desingularization theorem for vector fields. Topological classifiacation of germs of real planar vector fields.
- Order of topologically sufficient jet. Desingularization in the families.
- Nonaccumulation theorem for hyperbolic polycycles.
- Nonaccumulation theorem for elementary polycycles: ingredients of the proof.
- Classical Riemann-Hilbert problem. Negative solution by Bolibrukh.
- Nonlinear Riemann-Hilbert problem.
- Hilbert-Arnold problem and smooth normal forms for local families. Kotova zoo.
- Finite cyclicity of generic elementary polycycles.