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20132026
most citedOn Takens' Last Problem: tangencies and time averages near heteroclinic networks

38 citations · 131 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

math.DS2026

The Bosch and Simó conjecture on the Shilnikov-Hopf bifurcation

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We provide a rigorous mathematical proof of the Bosch-Simó conjecture ( M. Bosch, C. Simó (1993), Physica D, 217--229) regarding the abundance of strange attractors in the unfoldin…

math.DS2025

Three-dimensional horseshoes near an unfolding of a Hopf-Hopf singularity

Santiago Ibáñez, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

Motivated by a certain type of unfolding of a Hopf-Hopf singularity, we consider a one-parameter family of --vector fields in whose flows exhib…

math.DS2024

On the dynamics of rotating rank-one strange attractors families

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues, Bruno F. Gonçalves

In this article, we study a two-parameter family of rotating rank-one maps defined on , with , whose dynamics is charact…

math.DS2023

Transitions of bifurcation diagrams of a forced heteroclinic cycle

Isabel S. Labouriau, Alexandre A. P Rodrigues

A family of periodic perturbations of an attracting robust heteroclinic cycle defined on the two-sphere is studied by reducing the analysis to that of a one-parameter family of map…

math.DS2023

High frequency forcing of an attracting heteroclinic cycle

Isabel S. Labouriau, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

This article is concerned with the effect of time-periodic forcing on a vector field exhibiting an attracting heteroclinic network. We show that as the forcing frequency tends to i…

math.DS2023

Differential equations with pulses: existence and stability of periodic solutions

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We consider generic differential equations in with a finite number of hyperbolic equilibria, which are subject to --periodic instantaneous perturbative pulses ($ω>0…

math.DS2022★ 2 cited

SIR model with vaccination: bifurcation analysis

João P. S. Maurício de Carvalho, Alexandre A. Rodrigues

There are few adapted SIR models in the literature that combine vaccination and logistic growth. In this article, we study bifurcations of a SIR model where the class of Susceptibl…

math.DS2022

Abundance of infinite switching

Alexandre A. Rodrigues, Maria Luisa Castro

In this article, we describe a class of vector fields exhibiting abundant switching} near a network: for every neighbourhood of the network and every infinite admissible path, the…

math.DS2022★ 1 cited

Stability of heteroclinic cycles: a new approach

Telmo Peixe, Alexandre A. Rodrigues

This paper analyses the stability of cycles within a heteroclinic network lying in a three-dimensional manifold formed by six cycles, for a one-parameter model developed in the con…

math.DS2022

Rank-one strange attractors versus Heteroclinic tangles

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We present a mechanism for the emergence of strange attractors (observable chaos) in a two-parameter periodically-perturbed family of differential equations on the plane. The two p…

math.DS2021

"Large" strange attractors in the unfolding of a heteroclinic attractor

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

In this paper we present a mechanism for the emergence of strange attractors in a one-parameter family of differential equations acting on a 3-dimensional sphere. When the paramete…

math.DS2021

Periodic forcing of a heteroclinic network

Isabel S. Labouriau, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We present a comprehensive mechanism for the emergence of rotational horseshoes and strange attractors in a class of two-parameter families of periodically-perturbed differential e…

math.DS2021

Strange attractors in a dynamical system inspired by a seasonally forced SIR model

João P. S. Maurício de Carvalho, Alexandre A. Rodrigues

We analyze a multiparameter periodically-forced dynamical system inspired in the SIR endemic model. We show that the condition on the \emph{basic reproduction number} $\mathcal{R}_…

math.DS2021★ 10 cited

Persistent Strange attractors in 3D Polymatrix Replicators

Telmo Peixe, Alexandre A. Rodrigues

We introduce a one-parameter family of polymatrix replicators defined in a three-dimensional cube and study its bifurcations. For a given interval of parameters, this family exhibi…

math.DS2020★ 2 cited

Dissecting a resonance wedge on heteroclinic bifurcations

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

This article studies routes to chaos occurring within a resonance wedge for a 3-parametric family of differential equations acting on a 3-sphere. Our starting point is an autonomou…

math.DS2020

Abundance of strange attractors near an attracting periodically-perturbed network

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We study the dynamics of the periodically-forced May-Leonard system. We extend previous results on the field and we identify different dynamical regimes depending on the strength o…

math.DS2020★ 6 cited

Torus-breakdown near a Bykov attractor: a case study

Luísa Castro, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

There are few explicit examples in the literature of vector fields exhibiting complex dynamics that may be proved analytically. This paper reports numerical experiments performed f…

math.DS2019

Unfolding a Bykov attractor: from an attracting torus to strange attractors

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

In this paper we present a comprehensive mechanism for the emergence of strange attractors in a two-parametric family of differential equations acting on a three-dimensional sphere…

math.DS2019

Moduli of stability for heteroclinic cycles of periodic solutions

Maria Carvalho, Alexander Lohse, Alexandre Rodrigues

We consider vector fields in the three dimensional sphere with an attracting heteroclinic cycle between two periodic hyperbolic solutions with real Floquet multipliers. The p…

math.DS2018★ 6 cited

Chaos near a reversible homoclinic bifocus

Pablo G. Barrientos, Artem Raibekas, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We show that any neighborhood of a non-degenerate reversible bifocal homoclinic orbit contains chaotic suspended invariant sets on -symbols for all . This will be achie…

math.DS2018

Bifurcations from an attracting heteroclinic cycle under periodic forcing

Isabel S. Labouriau, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

There are few examples of non-autonomous vector fields exhibiting complex dynamics that may be proven analytically. We analyse a family of periodic perturbations of a weakly attrac…

math.DS2018

Strange attractors and non wandering domains near a homoclinic cycle to a bifocus

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

In this paper, we explore the three-dimensional chaotic set near a homoclinic cycle to a hyperbolic bifocus at which the vector field has negative divergence. If the invariant mani…

math.DS2017

The role of the saddle-foci on the structure of a Bykov attracting set

Mario Bessa, Maria Carvalho, Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

We consider a one-parameter family of symmetric vector fields on the three-dimensional sphere whose flows exhibit a h…

math.DS2017★ 4 cited

Attractors in complex networks

Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

In the framework of the generalized Lotka Volterra model, solutions representing multispecies sequencial competition can be predictable with high probability. In this paper, we sho…