PREFACE: RECENT ADVANCES IN BIFURCATION THEORY AND APPLICATION

摘要

Bifurcation theory is an essential mathematical study and is widespread in solving the abundance of problems in nonlinear science. Its application covers vast terrain, including the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering. The special issue aims to present the current advancement on bifurcation theory, as it provides a range of the latest progress on bifurcation theory in ordinary differential equations; partial differential equations; delay differential equations and difference equations. Eighteen papers encompass a wild spectrum of topics including, but not limited to, the theoretical analysis on local and global bifurcation, high co-dimensional bifurcation, bifurcations of limit cycle, as well as their various applications in the applied sciences. They are listed as follows.