Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (Advanced Series in Dynamical Systems/Vol. 12)

This book deals with the global qualitative behaviour of flows and diffeomorphisms. It presents a systematic study of the fundamental theory and method of dynamical systems, from local behaviour near a critical (fixed) point or periodic orbit to the global, such as global structural stability, bifurcations and chaos. It emphasizes the global non-hyperbolicity and introduces some new results obtained by Chinese mathematicians which may not be widely known.