Two regularizations of the grazing-sliding bifurcation giving non equivalent dynamics

Abstract

We present two ways of regularizing a one parameter family of piece-wise smooth dynamical systems undergoing a codimension one grazing-sliding global bifurcation of periodic orbits. First we use the Sotomayor-Teixeira regularization and prove that the regularized family has a saddle-node bifurcation of periodic orbits. Then we perform a hysteretic regularization and show that the regularized family has chaotic dynamics. Our result shows that, in spite that the two regularizations will give the same dynamics in the sliding modes, when a tangency appears the hysteretic process generates chaotic dynamics.