Discontinuity Induced Hopf and Neimark-Sacker Bifurcations in a Memristive Murali-Lakshmanan-Chua Circuit

We report using Clarke's concept of generalized differential and a modification of Floquet theory to nonsmooth oscillations, the occurrence of discontinuity induced Hopf bifurcations and Neimark-Sacker bifurcations leading to quasiperiodic attractors in a memristive Murali-Lakshmanan-Chua (memristive MLC) circuit. The above bifurcations arise because of the fact that a memristive MLC circuit is basically a nonsmooth system by virtue of having a memristive element as its nonlinearity. The switching and modulating properties of the memristor which we have considered endow the circuit with two discontinuity boundaries and multiple equilibrium points as well. As the Jacobian matrices about these equilibrium points are noninvertible, they are nonhyperbolic, some of these admit local bifurcations as well. Consequently when these equilibrium points are perturbed, they lose their stability giving rise to quasiperiodic orbits. The numerical simulations carried out by incorporating proper discontinuity mappings (DMs), such as the Poincare discontinuity map (PDM) and zero time discontinuity map (ZDM), are found to agree well with experimental observations.