The period function for second-order quadratic ODEs is monotone
Very little is known about the period function for large families of centers. In one of the pioneering works on this problem, Chicone [?] conjectured that all the centers encountered in the family of second-order differential equations ¨x = V (x, ˙ x), being V a quadratic polynomial, should have a mo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2003 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/847 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/847 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Differential equations Differentiable dynamical systems period function Equacions diferencials ordinàries Sistemes dinàmics diferenciables Classificació AMS::34 Ordinary differential equations::34C Qualitative theory Classificació AMS::37 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory::37C Smooth dynamical systems: general theory |
| Sumario: | Very little is known about the period function for large families of centers. In one of the pioneering works on this problem, Chicone [?] conjectured that all the centers encountered in the family of second-order differential equations ¨x = V (x, ˙ x), being V a quadratic polynomial, should have a monotone period function. Chicone solved some of the cases but some others remain still unsolved. In this paper we fill up these gaps by using a new technique based on the existence of Lie symmetries and presented in [?]. This technique can be used as well to reprove all the cases that were already solved, providing in this way a compact proof for all the quadratic second-order differential equations. We also prove that this property on the period function is no longer true when V is a polynomial which nonlinear part is homogeneous of degree n > 2. |
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