Numerical applications of equivariant reduction techniques

A new numerical method for detection and continuation of symmetry breaking bifurcation points is proposed. It avoids the construction of a symmetry adapted basis of the state space and the relevant block diagonalisation of the Jacobian. The method is related to the well-known techniques of augmented (bordered) Jacobians. The idea is to make a symmetry adapted choice of the bordering matrices which shoud induce a given representation of the symmetry group.