The goal is to make a global study of the family QsnSN of all real quadratic polynomial differential systems which have a finite semi-elemental saddle-node and an infinite saddle-node formed by the collision of two infinite singular points. This family can be divided into three different subfamilies, all of them with the finite saddle-node in the origin of the plane with the eigenvectors on the axes and (A) with the infinite saddle-node in the horizontal axis, (B) with the infinite saddle-node in the vertical axis and (C) with the infinite saddle-node in the bisector of the first and third quadrants. These three subfamilies modulo the action of the affine group and time homotheties are three-dimensional and we give their bifurcation diagram with respect to a normal form, in the three-dimensional real space of the parameters of these forms. In this paper we provide the complete study of the geometry of the first two families, (A) and (B). The bifurcation diagram for the subfamily (A) yields 29 phase portraits for systems in QsnSN(A) counting phase portraits with and without limit cycles, while the bifurcation diagram for the subfamily (B) yields 16 phase portraits for systems in QsnSN(B) under the same conditions. Case (C) will yield quite more cases and will have an independent paper in short. Algebraic invariants are used to construct the bifurcation set. The phase portraits are represented on the Poincaré disk. The bifurcation set of QsnSN(A) is not only algebraic due to the presence of a surface found numerically. All points in this surface correspond to connections of separatrices.
An in-depth analysis of nonautonomous bifurcations of saddle-node type for scalar differential equations $x'=-x^2+q(t)\,x+p(t)$, where $q\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ and $p\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ are bounded and uniformly continuous, is fundamental to explain the absence or occurrence of rate-induced tipping for the differential equation $y' =(y-(2/π)\arctan(ct))^2+p(t)$ as the rate $c$ varies on $[0,\infty)$. A classical attractor-repeller pair, whose existence for $c=0$ is assumed, may persist for any $c>0$, or disappear for a certain critical rate $c=c_0$, giving rise to rate-induc…
First order policy optimization has been widely used in reinforcement learning. It guarantees to find the optimal policy for the state-feedback linear quadratic regulator (LQR). However, the performance of policy optimization remains unclear for the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control where the LQG cost has spurious suboptimal stationary points. In this paper, we introduce a novel perturbed policy gradient (PGD) method to escape a large class of bad stationary points (including high-order saddles). In particular, based on the specific structure of LQG, we introduce a novel reparameterizati…
Homoclinic tangencies to resonant saddles and discrete Lorenz attractors
研究了一类二次同宿切线到鞍不动点的三参数一般开折中周期轨道的分支。我们应用重新标度技术的第一次返回（庞加莱）的地图，并表明，重新标度的地图可以带来一个地图渐近接近的三维Henon地图$\bar x=y,\bar y=z,\bar z = M_1 + M_2 y + B x - z^2$，如已知的，表现出野生双曲洛伦兹吸引子在一些开放的参数域。在此基础上，我们证明了类Lorenz吸引子的无穷级联的存在性。
We study generic two- and three-parameter unfoldings of a pair of orbits of quadratic homoclinic tangency in strongly dissipative systems. We prove that the corresponding stability windows for periodic orbits have various universal forms: the so-called "shrimps" (cross-road areas), as well as spring and saddle areas, and (in three-parameter unfoldings) "pregnant shrimps" (specific types of transitions between the shrimps and spring or saddle areas).
Let f be an infinitely-renormalizable quadratic polynomial and J_\infty be the intersection of forward orbits of "small" Julia sets of simple renormalizations of f. We prove that J_\infty contains no hyperbolic sets.
In this paper we consider the unfolding of saddle-node \[ X= \frac{1}{xU_a(x,y)}\Big(x(x^μ-\varepsilon)\partial_x-V_a(x)y\partial_y\Big), \] parametrized by $(\varepsilon,a)$ with $\varepsilon\approx 0$ and $a$ in an open subset $A$ of $\mathbb R^α,$ and we study the Dulac time $\mathcal T(s;\varepsilon,a)$ of one of its hyperbolic sectors. We prove (Theorem A) that the derivative $\partial_s\mathcal T(s;\varepsilon,a)$ tends to $-\infty$ as $(s,\varepsilon)\to (0^+,0)$ uniformly on compact subsets of $A.$ This result is addressed to study the bifurcation of critical periods in the Loud's fami…
In a recent joint work, the author has developed a modification of Newton's method, named New Q-Newton's method, which can avoid saddle points and has quadratic rate of convergence. While good theoretical convergence guarantee has not been established for this method, experiments on small scale problems show that the method works very competitively against other well known modifications of Newton's method such as Adaptive Cubic Regularization and BFGS, as well as first order methods such as Unbounded Two-way Backtracking Gradient Descent. In this paper, we resolve the convergence guarantee iss…
