TY - JOUR ID - Difonzo2020 LB - Difonzo2020 AU - Difonzo, Fabio V. TI - A note on attractivity for the intersection of two discontinuity manifolds ST - A note on attractivity for the intersection of two discontinuity manifolds JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2020 VL - 40 IS - 6 SP - 685 EP - 702 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2020.40.6.685 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2020.40.6.685 AB - In piecewise smooth dynamical systems, a co-dimension 2 discontinuity manifold can be attractive either through partial sliding or by spiraling. In this work we prove that both attractivity regimes can be analyzed by means of the moments solution, a spiraling bifurcation parameter and a novel attractivity parameter, which changes sign when attractivity switches from sliding to spiraling attractivity or vice-versa. We also study what happens at what we call attractivity transition points, showing that the spiraling bifurcation parameter is always zero at those points. KW - piecewise smooth systems KW - sliding motion KW - co-dimension 2 KW - discontinuity manifold KW - attractivity SN - 1232-9274 ER -