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Singularities of the Stability Boundary and the Principle of the Fragility of Good Things

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Catastrophe Theory

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Let us consider an equilibrium state of a system depending on several parameters and let us assume that (in some domain of variation of the parameters) this equilibrium state does not bifurcate.

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Arnold, V.I. (1992). Singularities of the Stability Boundary and the Principle of the Fragility of Good Things. In: Catastrophe Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58124-3_7

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