ON COMPUTING HETEROCLINIC TRAJECTORIES OF NON-AUTONOMOUS MAPS

Hüls T, Zou Y. ON COMPUTING HETEROCLINIC TRAJECTORIES OF NON-AUTONOMOUS MAPS. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B. 2012;17(1):79-99.We propose an adequate notion of a heteroclinic trajectory in non-autonomous systems that generalizes the notion of a heteroclinic orbit of an autonomous system. A heteroclinic trajectory connects two families of semi-bounded trajectories that are bounded in backward and forward time. We apply boundary value techniques for computing one representative of each family. These approximations allow the construction of projection boundary conditions that enable the calculation of a heteroclinic trajectory with high accuracy. The resulting algorithm is applied to non-autonomous toy models as well as to an example from mathematical biology