Global classification of oscillatory dynamics in symmetric zero-divergence 3D piecewise-linear Filippov systems with a visible--visible two-fold

Abstract

A global classification of the asymptotic oscillatory dynamics is established for a symmetric zero-divergence class of three-dimensional piecewise-linear Filippov systems, up to a set of initial conditions of zero Lebesgue measure. The affine fields are related by an involution, and the switching plane contains a visible--visible two-fold. In canonical coordinates, the eigenvalues are \(μ\pm i\) and \(-2μ\), while \(H\) measures the focal-line inclination. For every \(μ>0\), a simple-period crossing cycle exists if and only if \(H\in\mathcal I_μ\), and is unique, symmetric, hyperbolic, and orbitally asymptotically stable. Its half-period parametrizes \(\mathcal I_μ\) and determines the crossing points, period, and Floquet multipliers. Global dissipation excludes crossing cycles with any higher number of crossings and makes the classified cycle the \(ω\)-limit set of every crossing-only trajectory. If attractive sliding has no interior pseudo-equilibria, sliding is transient unless the trajectory reaches the two-fold. The initial conditions leading to the two-fold lie in a countable union of analytic surfaces and curves. Under sufficiently small perturbations in the Whitney \(C^1\) topology, the cycle persists as the unique simple-period crossing limit cycle and remains hyperbolic and orbitally asymptotically stable.