Sixth Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations and
Computational Simulations.
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations,
Conference 15 (2007), pp. 153-158. 

Title: On the direction of pitchfork bifurcation

Authors: Xiaojie Hou   (Univ.of Cincinnati, OH, USA)
         Philip Korman (Univ.of Cincinnati, OH, USA)
	 Yi Li    (Hunan Normal Univ., Hunan, Chnia)
 
Abstract: 
 We present an algorithm for computing the direction of pitchfork
 bifurcation for two-point boundary value problems.
 The formula is rather involved, but its computational evaluation
 is quite feasible. As an application, we obtain a multiplicity result.

Published February 28, 2007.
Math Subject Classifications: 34B15
Key Words: Pitchfork bifurcation, multiplicity of solutions.