A degenerate singularity generating geometric Lorenz attractors

Abstract A degenerate vector field singularity in R3 can generate a geometric Lorenz attractor in an arbitrarily small unfolding of it. This enables us to detect Lorenz-like chaos in some families of vector fields, merely by performing normal form calculations of order 3.

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