Frank Schilder, University of Bristol

Algorithms for Arnol'd Tongues and Quasiperiodic Tori

This paper presents algorithms for the computation of Arnol'd tongues and quasi-periodic tori in a two-parameter plane and demonstrates their performance with an example from nonlinear electrical engineering. Both methods are complementary and, together, allow the computation of the two-parameter bifurcation diagram near a one-parameter family of tori with parallel flow. The algorithms are simple to implement and compute Arnol'd tongues or quasi-periodic tori for user-defined rotation numbers. Since Arnol'd tongues are approximated by solutions of two-point boundary value problems, their computation becomes immediately accessible to a user of standard continuation software like, for example, AUTO.}