Bifurcation Complexity from Orbit-Flip Homoclinic Orbit of Weak Type

In this paper, we study the unfolding of a three-dimensional vector field having an orbit-flip homoclinic orbit of weak type. Such a homoclinic orbit is a degenerate version of the so-called orbit-flip homoclinic orbit. We show the existence of inclination-flip homoclinic orbits of arbitrary higher order bifurcating from the unperturbed system. Our strategy consists of using the local moving coordinates method and blow up in the parameter space. In addition, the numerical existence of the orbit-flip homoclinic orbit of weak type is presented based on the truncated Taylor expansion and the numerical computation for both the strong stable manifold and unstable manifold.