Sliding Bifurcations in Filippov Systems
The objective of this work is to study the dynamics of a piecewise-smooth dynamical system from the point of view
of bifurcations related to the contact of periodic solutions with the discontinuity manifold Σ, especially when
such sets find the boundary of the sliding region (subset of Σ where both vector fields point toward Σ).
Such bifurcations are known as sliding bifurcations and, in order to study them, applications called
Discontinuity Maps will be constructed whose purpose is to correct the behavior of the flows in neighborhoods
of the discontinuity set Σ. In this context two problems will be studied: when a periodic trajectory in an impact
system reaches the discontinuity manifold; when a periodic solution reaches the boundary of the sliding region.
In both cases appropriate applications that we will call "zero-time discontinuity map" (ZDM) and
"Poincare discontinuity map" (PDM) will be obtained.