Qualitative Stability Analysis of a Non-Hyperbolic Equilibrium Point of a Caputo Fractional System

Abstract

In this manuscript a center manifold reduction of the flow of a non-hyperbolic equilibrium point on a planar dynamical system with the Caputo derivative is proposed. The stability of the non-hyperbolic equilibrium point is shown to be locally asymptotically stable, under suitable conditions, by using the fractional Lyapunov direct method.