Asymmetric Duffing oscillator: the birth and build-up of period doubling

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the period doubling phenomenon in the periodically forced asymmetric Duffing oscillator. We use the known steady-state asymptotic solution -- the amplitude-frequency implicit function -- and known criterion for the existence of period doubling. Working in the framework of differential properties of implicit functions we derive analytical formulas for the birth of period-doubled solutions.

8 pages, 5 figures