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Catastrophes are qualitative changes of established regimes in distributed active systems. Any catastrophe is related to some bifurcation of an attractor which describes the established regime in a given system.

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Mikhailov, A.S., Loskutov, A.Y. (1991). Catastrophes. In: Foundations of Synergetics II. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97294-2_12

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