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Jean-Pierre Françoise

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arXiv2020

Perturbation theory of the quadratic Lotka-Volterra double center

We revisit the bifurcation theory of the Lotka-Volterra quadratic system \begin{eqnarray} X_0 :\left\{\begin{aligned} \dot{x}=& - y -x^2+y^2 ,\\ \dot{y}= &\;\;\;\;x - 2xy \end{aligned} \right. \end{eqnarray} with respect to arbitrary quadratic deformations. The system $X_0$ has a double center, which is moreover isochronous. We show that the deformed system $X_0$ can have at most two limit cycles on the finite plane, with possible distribution $(i,j)$, where $i+j\leq2$. Our approach is based on the study of pairs of bifurcation functions associated to the centers, expressed in terms of iterated path integrals of length two.

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arXiv2019

Hilbert's 16th problem on a period annulus and Nash space of arcs

This article introduces an algebro-geometric setting for the space of bifurcation functions involved in the local Hilbert's 16th problem on a period annulus. Each possible bifurcation function is in one-to-one correspondence with a point in the exceptional divisor $E$ of the canonical blow-up $B_I{\mathbb C}^n$ of the Bautin ideal $I$. In this setting, the notion of essential perturbation, first proposed by Iliev, is defined via irreducible components of the Nash space of arcs $ Arc(B_I\mathbb C^n,E)$. The example of planar quadratic vector fields in the Kapteyn normal form is further discussed.

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arXiv2013

Inversion of a mapping associated with the Aomoto-Forrester system

This article is devoted to the study of a general class of Hamiltonian systems which extends the Calogero systems with external quadratic potential associated to any root system. The interest for such a class comes from a previous article of Aomoto and Forrester. We consider first the one-degree of freedom case and compute the Birkhoff series defined near each of its stationary points. In general, the analysis of the system motivates finding some expression for the inverses of a rational map introduced by Aomoto and Forrester. We derive here some diagrammatic expansion series for these inverses.

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arXiv2013

Dip and Buffering in a fast-slow system associated to Brain Lactacte Kinetics

High-dimensional compartmental dynamical systems have been introduced to model brain metabolism. In this article, an approach is proposed to their mathematical analysis. Reductions of these models are obtained by replacing several compartments by a control term. The analysis focuses here on lactate kinetics. A mathematical analysis of the initial dip of lactacte, observed under stimulation, and of the periodic buffering, underlying the re- sponse to a repetitive sequence of identical stimuli, can be proposed. This mathematical analysis relies on asymptotics techniques of time multi-scaled dynamical systems such as averaging along slow manifolds.

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arXiv2009

Canard cycles in global dynamics

Fast-slow systems are studied usually by "geometrical dissection". The fast dynamics exhibit attractors which may bifurcate under the influence of the slow dynamics which is seen as a parameter of the fast dynamics. A generic solution comes close to a connected component of the stable invariant sets of the fast dynamics. As the slow dynamics evolves, this attractor may lose its stability and the solution eventually reaches quickly another connected component of attractors of the fast dynamics and the process may repeat. This scenario explains quite well relaxation and bursting oscillations. More recently, in relation both with theory of dynamical systems and with applications to physiology, a new interest has emerged in canard cycles. These orbits share the property that they remain for a while close to an unstable invariant set (either singular set or periodic orbits of the fast dynamics). Although canards were first discovered when the transition points are folds, in this article, we focus on the case where some transition points are instead transcritical. We present several new surprising effects like the "amplification of canards" or the "exceptionally fast recovery" on both (1+1)-systems and (2+1)-systems associated with tritrophic food chain dynamics. Finally, we also mention their possible relevance to the notion of resilience which has been coined out in ecology.

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