4.4 Bifurcations of Equilibrium Points and Periodic Orbits
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Fig. 4.21 Illustration of a
saddle-node bifurcation of
EPs. The figure depicts the
behavior of
dx/dt = μ − g(x) in a
neighborhood of x 0 for three
values of μ. A small black
(resp., white) circle denotes
an asymptotically stable
(resp., unstable) EP