I have enjoyed this paper on such dynamics: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2

I have enjoyed this paper on such dynamics: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s... It is kind of the child of what used to be called Catastrophe Theory, which in low dimensions is essentially a classification of folding of manifolds. Now the systems are higher dinemsional and the advice more practical/heuristic.