Heteroclinic Melnikov integral for a quartic Hamiltonian ($M(\mu ,s)={\int }_{-\sqrt{2s}}^{\sqrt{2s}}(\mu -v^2/2)(s+v^2/2)dv$)

Perturb the Hamiltonian blow-up of a reflection-symmetric double-zero point by $u^{\prime }=-sv+v^3/2+\epsilon (\mu -v^2/2)u+O({\epsilon }^2)$ and $v^{\prime }=2u+\epsilon (\mu -v^2/2)v+O({\epsilon }^2)$. Then $H^{\prime }=\epsilon (\mu -v^2/2)(2u^2+s{v}^2-v^4/2)+O({\epsilon }^2)$. On the positive heteroclinic branch $dt=dv/[\sqrt{2}(s-v^2/2)]$, so its first energy change is $\epsilon M/\sqrt{2}$, where $M={\int }_{-\sqrt{2s}}^{\sqrt{2s}}(\mu -v^2/2)(s+v^2/2)dv$. A simple zero gives cancellation of the leading stable/unstable manifold splitting and continues to a nearby heteroclinic bifurcation. Since $\partial M/\partial \mu >0$, there is a unique first-order balance for fixed $s>0$.