Heteroclinic networks on the tetrahedron

We study the stability properties of heteroclinic cycles as they occur in heteroclinic networks on the tetrahedron. Their stability properties are investigated using Poincare sections and can be stated in terms of 'relative asymptotic stability'. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for such cycles to be relatively asymptotically stable with respect to some open set.

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