Discontinuity mappings for stochastic nonsmooth systems

For stability and bifurcation analysis involving recurrent behaviour such as periodic orbits, it is important to be able to quantify how nearby trajectories behave by means of a local mapping. In smooth systems these mappings can be computed using the system’s variational equations. For piecewise-smooth or hybrid systems the same technique cannot be used without some corrections. This is due to the fact that nearby trajectories can be...