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On the fold-Hopf bifurcation for continuous piecewise linear differential systems with symmetry

Jaume Llibre1, Enrique Ponce, Javier Ros

  • 1Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. jllibre@mat.uab.cat

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