On the Number of Unbounded Solution Branches in a Neighborhood of an Asymptotic Bifurcation Point

Abstract

We suggest a method for studying asymptotically linear vector fields with a parameter. The method permits one to prove theorems on asymptotic bifurcation points (bifurcation points at infinity) for the case of double degeneration of the principal linear part. We single out a class of fields that have more than two unbounded branches of singular points in a neighborhood of a bifurcation point. Some applications of the general theorems to bifurcations of periodic solutions and subharmonics as well as to the two-point boundary value problem are given.