Based on the results about the invariant cones appeared in the literature
this paper analyses the existence of periodic orbits in three-dimensional
continuous piecewise linear homogeneous systems with two zones, and a necessary
and sufficient condition for the existence of periodic orbits of such systems
is given.
This paper presents an analysis on nonstandard generalized Hopf bifurcation
in a class of switched systems where the lost of stability of linearized
systems is not due to the crossing of their complex conjugate eigenvalues but
relevant to the switching laws between the subslystems. Thus is remarkably
different from the mechanism of the Hopf bifurcation and the generalized Hopf
bifurcation studied in the literature.