A new route to pulse-shaped explosion of limit cycles and its induced amplitude-modulated bursting.

This paper aims to report a new route to pulse-shaped explosion (PSE) related to the limit cycle attractor in a mechanical system with multiple-frequency excitations. We show that the compound bursting connected by PSE of equilibria can be observed in this system. Then, with the decrease of the amplitude of parametric excitation, the compound bursting pattern begins to change to other types, accompanied by the generation of PSE of limit cycles. Typically, as a novel sharp transition behavior underlying the occurrence of bursting oscillations, the PSE can be created by the disappearance of critical escape transitions. In present study, based on the two-parameter bifurcation analysis, we find that the PSE can also be created in the branch of limit cycles with the disappearance of fold points of homoclinic bifurcation curves, which is quite different from the ones reported in previous works and can be regarded as a new route to the PSE of limit cycles. Based on this, the compound bursting induced by the PSE of limit cycles is investigated. Besides, it should be pointed out that the limit cycle exhibiting PSE can be regarded as an amplitude-modulated limit cycle attractor, and thus we obtain a newly released bursting rhythm, namely the amplitude-modulated bursting, based on the PSE of limit cycles. These findings have significant implications for the understanding of PSE and the diversity of bursting dynamics induced by it. • A new route to the pulse-shaped explosion of limit cycles. • Compound bursting related to the pulse-shaped explosion of equilibria and limit cycles. • The amplitude-modulated bursting triggered by pulse-shaped explosion of limit cycles. • Transition of bursting patterns from compound bursting to amplitude-modulated bursting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]