However, recently, in [2], this obstruction has been removed and the existence of finite-dimensional
smooth parameter-dependent local center manifolds has been rigorously established in the functional
analytic perturbation framework for dual semigroups (sun-star calculus) developed in [5,6,7,8]. Once
the existence of these invariant manifolds is proved, the normalization technique for local bifurcations
of ODEs developed in [27] can be lifted rather easily to the infinite dimensional setting of DDEs. The
advantages of this normalization technique are that the center manifold reduction and the calculation of
the normal form coefficients are performed simultaneously by solving the so-called homological equation.
This method gives explicit expressions for the coefficients rather than a procedure as developed in
[17,18]. The explicit expressions make them particularly suitable for both symbolic and numerical
evaluation.
Indeed, utilizing the normalization method, the authors in [2] obtained asymptotics to initialize the
continuation of codimension one bifurcation curves of nonhyperbolic equilibria and cycles emanating
from the codimension two generalized Hopf, fold-Hopf, Hopf-Hopf and transcritical-Hopf bifurcation
points in DDEs of the form (1). These asymptotics have been implemented into the fully GNU Octave
compatible MATLAB package DDE-BifTool [16,35].
Another recent developent is the rigorous derivation of higher-order asymptotics for the codimen-
sion one homoclinic bifurcation curve emanating from the generic codimension two Bogdanov–Takens
bifurcation point in in two-parameter ODEs [3]. Thus, by combining the results of the parameter-
dependent center manifolds in DDEs from [2] and the homoclinic asymptotics in ODEs from [3], we
are in the position to perform the parameter-dependent center manifold reduction and normalization
for the generic and transcritical codimension two Bogdanov–Takens bifurcations. This will allow us
to initialize the continuation of codimension one bifurcation curves of nonhyperbolic equilibria and
homoclinic solutions emanating from these codimension two points. Hopefully, our results and their
software implementation will make the numerical analysis of Bogdanov–Takens bifurcations in DDEs
from applications rather routine.
This paper is organized as follows. We begin in Section 2 with a short summary from [2] on
parameter-dependent center manifolds for classical DDEs and we state various results needed for the
normalization technique. In Section 3 we describe the general technique that we use to derive the trans-
formation from the orbital normal form on the parameter-dependent center manifold in the infinite-
dimensional setting of DDEs. In Section 4 the method is then applied to the generic and transcritical
codimension two Bogdanov–Takens bifurcations. We provide explicit transformations necessary for the
predictors of codimension one bifurcation curves. We do this in a form suitable for classical DDEs,
covering cases that are more general than (1). It is here where we see the true benefit of allowing for
orbital normal forms on the center manifold. Indeed, we do not need to derive homoclinic asymptotics
for the transcritical codimension two Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation separately. Instead, we only need
to derive the center manifold transformation for the transcritical codimension two Bogdanov–Takens
bifurcation. Then, using the blow-up transformations (82), we obtain the same perturbed Hamiltonian
system (up to order three) as in the generic Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation.
We employ our implementation in DDE-BifTool to illustrate the accuracy of the codimension one
bifurcation curve predictors through various example models, displaying the generic and transcritical
codimension two Bogdanov–Takens bifurcations in Section 5. An in-depth treatment of the examples,
including the MATLAB and Julia source code to reproduce the obtained results, as well as a more in-depth
analysis of the examples, are provided in the Supplement.
2 Parameter-dependent center manifolds for DDEs
Here we summarize those results from [2] on parameter-dependent center manifold for classical DDEs,
which are required for the normalization technique in Section 4. For a general introduction on pertur-
bation theory for dual semigroups (also known as sun-star calculus) we refer to [13].
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