Integrable nonlinear oscillators with polynomial invariants: construction, Poincare geometry, and an analytic stability boundary
Abstract
Starting from the nonlinear ODE with , we show that after a suitable normal-form reduction of any Hill equation one may, without loss of generality, fix the linear part as (with constant). For the class with , our goal is to compile a catalogue of all possible integrable cases. We restrict attention to integrals that are polynomial in the variables and . The Hamiltonian does not provide such an integral because it is explicitly time dependent. Instead, we search for invariants that are quadratic in . We show that such invariants exist precisely when satisfies the linear third-order ODE . This yields the three-parameter solution . For this reproduces the trigonometric structure with exponent found in Hagel--Bouquet (1992). In addition we present a detailed stability analysis based on the invariant using Poincar\'e sections and find full agreement with numerical simulations.
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@article{arxiv.2510.24080,
title = {Integrable nonlinear oscillators with polynomial invariants: construction, Poincare geometry, and an analytic stability boundary},
author = {Johannes Hagel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24080},
year = {2025}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures