TITLE:
Invariant curves near Hamiltonian-Hopf bifurcations
of 4D symplectic maps

AUTHORS:
Angel Jorba^(1), Merce Olle^(2),

(1) angel@maia.ub.es
Departament de Matematica Aplicada i Analisi,
Universitat de Barcelona,
Gran Via 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.

(2) merce.olle@upc.es
Departament de Matematica Aplicada I,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

ABSTRACT:
In this paper we give a numerical description of the neighbourhood of
a fixed point of a symplectic map undergoing a transition from linear
stability to complex instability, i.e., the so called Hamiltonian-Hopf
bifurcation. We have considered both the direct and inverse cases.

The study is based on the numerical computation of the Lyapunov
families of invariant curves near the fixed point. We show how these
families, jointly with their invariant manifolds and the invariant
manifolds of the fixed point organise the phase space around the
bifurcation.
