{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/fractional-order-sunflower-equation-stability","title":"Fractional Order Sunflower Equation: Stability, Bifurcation and Chaos","arxiv_id":"2404.17321","date":"2024-04-26","proceeding":null,"authors":["Deepa Gupta","Sachin Bhalekar"],"abstract":"The sunflower equation describes the motion of the tip of a plant due to the auxin transportation under the influence of gravity. This work proposes the fractional-order generalization to this delay differential equation. The equation contains two fractional orders and infinitely many equilibrium points. The problem is important because the coefficients in the linearized equation near the equilibrium points are delay-dependent. We provide a detailed stability analysis of each equilibrium point using linearized stability. We find the boundary of the stable region by setting the purely imaginary value to the characteristic root. This gives the conditions for the existence of the critical values of the delay at which the stability properties change. We observed the following bifurcation phenomena: stable for all the delay values, a single stable region in the delayed interval, and a stability switch. We also observed a multi-scroll chaotic attractor for some values of the parameters.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17321v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.17321v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"fractional-order-sunflower-equation-stability","repo_url":"https://github.com/sachinbhalekaruoh/sunflowerequation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}