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Coexistence of bounded and unbounded motions in a bouncing ball model

Dynamical Systems 2020-04-22 v1

Abstract

We consider the model describing the vertical motion of a ball falling with constant acceleration on a wall and elastically reflected. The wall is supposed to move in the vertical direction according to a given periodic function ff. We apply the Aubry-Mather theory to the generating function in order to prove the existence of bounded motions with prescribed mean time between the bounces. As the existence of unbounded motions is known, it is possible to find a class of functions ff that allow both bounded and unbounded motions.

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@article{arxiv.2004.09929,
  title  = {Coexistence of bounded and unbounded motions in a bouncing ball model},
  author = {Stefano Marò},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09929},
  year   = {2020}
}