Multiple chaos arising from single-parametric perturbation of a degenerate homoclinic orbit

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate multiple existence of homoclinic solutions for a periodically perturbed N-dimensional autonomous differential equation with a degenerate homoclinic solution of degeneracy degree d. Known results were obtained with a functional perturbation, which is regarded as an infinite-dimensional parameter. In this paper we consider a single parameter perturbation, a special form of former's functional perturbation, and prove that the single parameter is enough to unfold all possibilities of linearly independent homoclinic solutions bifurcated from the unperturbed degenerate homoclinic one, which actually improves the known results. Furthermore, we prove that those homoclinic solutions are all transversal, showing co-existence of multiple chaotic motions.