The period function of Hamiltonian systems with separable variables

In this paper we study the period function of those planar Hamiltonian differential systems for which the Hamiltonian function H(x, y) has separable variables, i.e., it can be written as H(x, y) = F1(x) + F2(y). More concretely we are concerned with the search of sufficient conditions implying the m...

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Autores: Villadelprat Yagüe, Jordi|||0000-0002-1168-9750, Zhang, Xiang
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:221332
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/221332
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s10884-019-09759-w
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hamiltonian differential system
Center
Period function
Critical periodic orbit
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Sumario:In this paper we study the period function of those planar Hamiltonian differential systems for which the Hamiltonian function H(x, y) has separable variables, i.e., it can be written as H(x, y) = F1(x) + F2(y). More concretely we are concerned with the search of sufficient conditions implying the monotonicity of the period function, i.e., the absence of critical periodic orbits. We are also interested in the uniqueness problem and in this respect we seek conditions implying that there exists at most one critical periodic orbit. We obtain in a unified way several sufficient conditions that already appear in the literature, together with some other results that to the best of our knowledge are new. Finally we also investigate the limit of the period function as the periodic orbits tend to the boundary of the period annulus of the center.