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add TODO stubs for planar analysis, limit cycles, and planar bifurcations
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title: Limit Cycles
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## Conservative and Hamiltonian Systems
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<!-- TODO: Hamiltonian systems, energy conservation, potential functions, energy level sets, closed orbits -->
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## Lyapunov Functions
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<!-- TODO: Lyapunov function construction, proving global/asymptotic stability, Lyapunov's theorems -->
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## Limit Cycles
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<!-- TODO: definition, isolated closed orbits, stable/unstable/half-stable limit cycles, amplitude and frequency -->
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## Ruling Out and Proving Closed Orbits
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<!-- TODO: Bendixson's theorem (ruling out closed orbits via divergence), Poincaré-Bendixson theorem (proving existence via trapping regions) -->
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title: Planar Bifurcations
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## Zero-Eigenvalue Bifurcations
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<!-- TODO: saddle-node, transcritical, and pitchfork bifurcations in 2D systems, relation to 1D normal forms from [[bifurcations]] -->
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## Hopf Bifurcation
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<!-- TODO: definition, supercritical vs subcritical, birth/death of limit cycles, eigenvalues crossing imaginary axis, normal form -->

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:::definition "Hyperbolic Fixed Point"
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A **hyperbolic fixed point** is a @fixed-point for which the real part of both eigenvalues is non-zero.
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## Nullclines
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<!-- TODO: nullcline definition, using nullclines to find fixed points and sketch phase portraits -->
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## Classification of Linear Systems
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<!-- TODO: trace-determinant classification (saddle, stable/unstable node, stable/unstable spiral, center, degenerate node), eigenvalue analysis -->
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## Jacobian Linearization
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<!-- TODO: Jacobian matrix at fixed points, linearization of nonlinear systems, when linearization determines stability (hyperbolic case) -->
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## Polar Coordinate Methods
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<!-- TODO: converting planar systems to polar form, radial and angular dynamics, using polar coordinates for limit cycle analysis -->
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