Bifurcation of solitary waves

We consider solitary water waves on the vorticity flow in a two-dimensional channel of finite depth. The main object of study is a branch of solitary waves starting from a laminar flow and then approaching an extreme wave. In {Koz1b} it was proved that there always exists a bifurcation point on such branches and the first bifurcation occurs at a simple eigenvalue. Here we describe the structure of global bifurcating branches starting from this bifurcation point.