On embedded bifurcation structure in some discretized vector fields

Abstract

In this paper, we study a dynamic structure of discretized vector fields obtained from the Brusselator, which is described by two-dimensional ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We found that a bifurcation structure of the logistic map is embedded in the discretized vector field. The embedded bifurcation structure was unraveled by the dynamical orbits that eventually converge to a fixed point. We provide a detailed mathematical analysis to explain this phenomenon and relate it to the solution of the original ODEs. © 2009 American Institute of Physics.