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Lindstedt Series Solutions of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Lattice

Mathematical Physics 2009-11-13 v1 Materials Science Dynamical Systems math.MP Classical Physics

Abstract

We apply the Lindstedt method to the one dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam β\beta lattice to find fully general solutions to the complete set of equations of motion. The pertubative scheme employed uses ϵ\epsilon as the expansion parameter, where ϵ\epsilon is the coefficient of the quartic coupling between nearest neighbors. We compare our non-secular perturbative solutions to numerical solutions and find striking agreement.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0703037,
  title  = {Lindstedt Series Solutions of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Lattice},
  author = {David C Dooling and James E Hammerberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0703037},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 10 figures. To appear in the Journal of Mathematical Physics