
The goal of these notes is to give a reasonahly com plete, although not exhaustive, discussion of what is commonly referred to as the Hopf bifurcation with applications to spe cific problems, including stability calculations. Historical ly, the subject had its origins in the...

The goal of these notes is to give a reasonahly com- plete, although not exhaustive, discussion of what is commonly referred to as the Hopf bifurcation with applications to spe- cific problems, including stability calculations. Historical- ly, the subject had its origins in the...