Hamiltonian blow-up of a reflection-symmetric double-zero point ($H=u^2+s{v}^2/2-v^4/8$)

Near a nilpotent origin with $\sigma =1$, $\mu =0$, the weighted scaling $u_{\mathrm{old}}={\epsilon }^{2}u$, $v_{\mathrm{old}}=\epsilon v$, $\tau =\epsilon t$, ${\mu }_{\mathrm{old}}={\epsilon }^2\mu$, $\sigma =1+{\epsilon }^{2}s$ makes the leading cubic confinement flow $u^{\prime }=-sv+v^3/2$, $v^{\prime }=2u$. Direct differentiation proves conservation of $H=u^2+s{v}^2/2-v^4/8$. For $s>0$ the origin is a centre and $(0,\pm \sqrt{2s})$ are saddles. Their heteroclinic connections have $H=s^2/2$ and $u=\pm (2s-v^2)/(2\sqrt{2})$ for $|v|\le \sqrt{2s}$. Positive lower energy levels surround the centre; higher levels escape the potential well.