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Catastrophe theory
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Catastrophe theory

Robert Gilmore
Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement, v 2(C), pp 191-199
1987

Abstract

Catastrophe Theory is a program. The aim of the program is to classify the qualitative properties of the solutions of equations, and to determine how these qualitative properties depend on the parameters which appear in these equations. Elementary Catastrophe Theory is the implementation of this program in the simplest class of nonlinear dynamical systems: it is the study of the equilibria of gradient dynamical systems.

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