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Stability for quasi-periodically perturbed Hill's equations

Mathematical Physics 2014-03-21 v1 Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We consider a perturbed Hill's equation of the form ϕ¨+(p0(t)+ϵp1(t))ϕ=0\ddot \phi + (p_{0}(t) + \epsilon p_{1}(t)) \phi = 0, where p0p_{0} is real analytic and periodic, p1p_{1} is real analytic and quasi-periodic and \eps\eps is a ``small'' real parameter. Assuming Diophantine conditions on the frequencies of the decoupled system, i.e. the frequencies of the external potentials p0p_{0} and p1p_{1} and the proper frequency of the unperturbed (ϵ=0\epsilon=0) Hill's equation, but without making non-degeneracy assumptions on the perturbing potential p1p_{1}, we prove that quasi-periodic solutions of the unperturbed equation can be continued into quasi-periodic solutions if ϵ\epsilon lies in a Cantor set of relatively large measure in [ϵ0,ϵ0][-\epsilon_0,\epsilon_0], where ϵ0\epsilon_0 is small enough. Our method is based on a resummation procedure of a formal Lindstedt series obtained as a solution of a generalized Riccati equation associated to Hill's problem.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0410030,
  title  = {Stability for quasi-periodically perturbed Hill's equations},
  author = {Guido Gentile and Daniel A. Cortez and Joao C. A. Barata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0410030},
  year   = {2014}
}

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40 pages, 4 figures

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