In order to further understand a complex 3-D dynamical system proposed by Qi et al, showing four-wing chaotic attractors with very complicated topological structures over a large range of parameters, we study degenerate Hopf bifurcations in the system. It exhibits the result of a period-doubling cascade to chaos from a Hopf bifurcation point. The theoretical analysis and simulations demonstrate the rich dynamics of the system.

Hopf bifurcation, dynamics at infinity and robust modified function projective synchronization (RMFPS) problem for Sprott E system with quadratic perturbation were studied in this paper. By using the method of projection for center manifold computation, the subcritical and the supercritical Hopf bifurcation were analyzed and obtained. Then, in accordance with the Poincare compactification of polynomial vector field in $R^3$, the dynamical behaviors at infinity were described completely. Moreover, a...