Nonresonant Bifurcations of Heteroclinic Loops With One Inclination Flip

Abstract

Heteroclinic bifurcations in four-dimensional vector fields are investigated by setting up local coordinates near a heteroclinic loop. This heteroclinic loop consists of two principal heteroclinic orbits, but there is one stable foliation that involves an inclination flip. The existence, nonexistence, coexistence and uniqueness of the 1-heteroclinic loop, 1-homoclinic orbit, and 1-periodic orbit are studied. Also, the nonexistence, existence of the 2-homoclinic and 2-periodic orbit are demonstrated.