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Establishing the existence of periodic orbits is one of the crucial and most intricate topics in the study of dynamical systems, and over the years, many methods have been developed to this end. On the other hand, finding closed orbits in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Marian Mrozek , Roman Srzednicki , Justin Thorpe , Thomas Wanner

Analytical solution of the homoclinic orbit of a two dimensional system of differential equations that describes the hamiltonian part of the slow flow of a three degree of freedom dissipative system of linear coupled oscillators with an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Jamal- Odysseas Maaita , Efthymia Meletlidou

Special subsets of orbits in chaotic systems, e.g. periodic orbits, heteroclinic orbits, closed orbits, can be considered as skeletons or scaffolds upon which the full dynamics of the system is built. In particular, as demonstrated in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-28 Jizhou Li , Steven Tomsovic

We study the dynamics of a pair of parametrically-driven coupled nonlinear mechanical resonators of the kind that is typically encountered in applications involving microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS). We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eyal Kenig , Yuriy A. Tsarin , Ron Lifshitz

We study the existence of periodic solutions in a class of planar Filippov systems obtained from non-autonomous periodic perturbations of reversible piecewise smooth differential systems. It is assumed that the unperturbed system presents a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Douglas D. Novaes , Tere M. Seara , Marco A. Teixeira , Iris O. Zeli

In the paper, we utilize the recent variational, abstract theorem to show the existence of homoclinic solutions to the Hamiltonian system $$ \dot{z} = J D_z H(z, t), \quad t \in \mathbb{R}, $$ where the Hamiltonian $H : \mathbb{R}^{2N}…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Federico Bernini , Bartosz Bieganowski , Daniel Strzelecki

In this paper we consider a semilinear parabolic equation in an infinite cylinder. The spatially varying nonlinearity is such that it connects two (spatially independent) bistable nonlinearities in a compact set in space. We prove that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Simon Eberle

In the current study, the existence of periodic orbits around a fixed homogeneous cube is investigated, and the results have powerful implications for examining periodic orbits around non-spherical celestial bodies. In the two different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-25 Xiaodong Liu , Hexi Baoyin , Xingrui Ma

We prove the existence of minimal heteroclinic orbits for a class of fourth order O.D.E. systems with variational structure. In our general set-up, the set of equilibria of these systems is a union of manifolds, and the heteroclinic orbits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Panayotis Smyrnelis

Heteroclinic connections between two distinct hyperbolic periodic orbits in conservative systems are important in a wide range of applications. On the other hand, it is theoretically challenging to find large amplitude connections from…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Thomas J. Bridges , David J. B. Lloyd , Daniel J. Ratliff , Patrick Sprenger

By folding an autonomous system of rational equations in the plane to a scalar difference equation, we show that the rational system has coexisting periodic orbits of all possible periods as well as stable aperiodic orbits for certain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-20 N. Lazaryan , H. Sedaghat

Index theory revealed its outstanding role in the study of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and the dynamical consequences of this theory are enormous. Although the index theory in the periodic case is well-established, very few…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Xijun Hu , Alessandro Portaluri

In this article we construct the parameter region where the existence of a homoclinic orbit to a zero equilibrium state of saddle type in the Lorenz-like system will be analytically proved in the case of a nonnegative saddle value. Then,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-07 G. A. Leonov , R. N. Mokaev , N. V. Kuznetsov , T. N. Mokaev

Semiclassical sum rules, such as the Gutzwiller trace formula, depend on the properties of periodic, closed, or homoclinic (heteroclinic) orbits. The interferences embedded in such orbit sums are governed by classical action functions and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-21 Jizhou Li , Steven Tomsovic

We consider autonomous Lagrangian systems with two degrees of freedom, having an hyperbolic equilibrium of saddle-saddle type (that is the eingenvalues of the linearized system about the equilibrium are $\pm \lambda_1, \pm \lambda_2 $,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano Berti , Philippe Bolle

The double pendulum, a simple system of classical mechanics, is widely studied as an example of, and testbed for, chaotic dynamics. In 2016, Maiti et al. studied a generalization of the simple double pendulum with equal point-masses at…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Jonathan Tot , Robert H. Lewis

The 1:1:2 resonant elastic pendulum is a simple classical system that displays the phenomenon known as Hamiltonian monodromy. With suitable initial conditions, the system oscillates between nearly pure springing and nearly pure…

The existence of parabolic orbits is obtained for a class of singular Hamiltonian systems $\ddot{u}(t)+\nabla V(u(t))=0$ by taking limit for a sequence of non-collision periodic solutions which are obtained by Mountain Pass Lemma.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-10 Donglun Wu , Shiqing Zhang

In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for following Hamiltonian systems with asymptotically quadratic nonlinearities at infinity \begin{eqnarray*} \ddot{u}(t)-L(t)u+\nabla W(t,u)=0. {eqnarray*} We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Dong-Lun Wu , Xiang Yu

We present an extension of the theory known as Lin's method to heteroclinic chains that connect hyperbolic equilibria and hyperbolic periodic orbits. Based on the construction of a so-called Lin orbit, that is, a sequence of continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Jürgen Knobloch , Thorsten Rieß