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We consider instabilities of a single mode with finite wavenumber in inversion symmetric spatially one dimensional systems, where the character of the bifurcation changes from sub- to supercritical behaviour. Starting from a general equation of motion the full amplitude equation is derived systematically and formulas for the dependence of the coefficients on the system parameters are obtained. We emphasise the importance of nonlinear derivative terms in the amplitude equation for the behaviour in the vicinity of the bifurcation point. Especially the numerical values of the corresponding coefficients determine the region of coexistence between the stable trivial solution and stable spatially periodic patterns. Our approach clearly shows that similar considerations fail for the case of oscillatory instabilities., Comment: 16 pages, uses iop style files, manuscript also available at ftp://athene.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/pub/publications/wolfram/jpa_97/ or at http://athene.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/public/wolfram_publ.html. J. Phys. A in press

Spatially homogeneous solutions of the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation are analysed. The conservative as well as the dissipative case is considered explicitly. For the linearly polarized driven Hamiltonian system we apply canonical perturbation theory to uncover the main resonances as well as the global phase space structure. In the case of circularly polarized driven dissipative motion we present the complete bifurcation diagram including bifurcations up to codimension three., Comment: LATeX, 25 pages, figures available via ftp@athene.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de in /pub/publications/wolfram/zpb_94 (postscript, plain or gziped)