TY - BOOK AU - Verhulst, Ferdinand. AU - Ferdinand Verhulst TI - Nonlinear differential equations and dynamical systems SN - 9783540609346 U1 - 515.355 VER PY - 1996/// CY - , Berlin PB - : Springer KW - Mathematics KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Sistemas dinámicos diferenciables KW - Differentiable dynamical systems N1 - 1 Introduction 1.1 Definitions and notation 1.2 Existence and uniqueness 1.3 Gronwall's inequality 2 Autonomous equations 2.1 Phase-space, orbits 2.2 Critical points and linearisation 2.3 Periodic solutions 2.4 First integrals and integral manifolds 2.5 Evolution of a volume element, Liouville's theorem 2.6 Exercises 3 Critical points 3.1 Two-dimensional linear systems 3.2 Remarks on three-dimensional linear systems 3.3 Critical points of nonlinear equations 3.4 Exercises 4 Periodic solutions 4.1 Bendixson's criterion 4.2 Geometric auxiliaries, preparation for the Poincaré-Bendixson theorem 4.3 The Poincaré-Bendixson theorem 4.4 Applications of the Poincaré-Bendixson theorem 4.5 Periodic solutions in?n 4.6 Exercises 5 Introduction to the theory of stability 5.1 Simple examples 5.2 Stability of equilibrium solutions 5.3 Stability of periodic solutions 5.4 Linearisation 5.5 Exercises 6 Linear Equations 6.1 Equations with constant coefficients 6.2 Equations with coefficients which have a limit 6.3 Equations with periodic coefficients 6.4 Exercises 7 Stability by linearisation 7.1 Asymptotic stability of the trivial solution 7.2 Instability of the trivial solution 7.3 Stability of periodic solutions of autonomous equations 7.4 Exercises 8 Stability analysis by the direct method 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Lyapunov functions 8.3 Hamiltonian systems and systems with first integrals 8.4 Applications and examples 8.5 Exercises 9 Introduction to perturbation theory 9.1 Background and elementary examples 9.2 Basic material 9.3 Naïve expansion 9.4 The Poincaré expansion theorem 9.5 Exercises 10 The Poincaré-Lindstedt method 10.1 Periodic solutions of autonomous second-order equations 10.2 Approximation of periodic solutions on arbitrary long time-scales 10.3 Periodic solutions of equations with forcing terms 10.4 The existence of periodic solutions 10.5 Exercises 11 The method of averaging 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Lagrange standard form 11.3 Averaging in the periodic case 11.4 Averaging in the general case 11.5 Adiabatic invariants 11.6 Averaging over one angle, resonance manifolds 11.7 Averaging over more than one angle, an introduction 11.8 Periodic solutions 11.9 Exercises 12 Relaxation Oscillations 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Mechanical systems with large friction 12.3 The van der Pol-equation 12.4 The Volterra-Lotka equations 12.5 Exercises 13 Bifurcation Theory 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Normalisation 13.3 Averaging and normalisation 13.4 Centre manifolds 13.5 Bifurcation of equilibrium solutions and Hopf bifurcation 13.6 Exercises 14 Chaos 14.1 Introduction and historical context 14.2 The Lorenz-equations 14.3 Maps associated with the Lorenz-equations 14.4 One-dimensional dynamics 14.5 One-dimensional chaos: the quadratic map 14.6 One-dimensional chaos: the tent map 14.7 Fractal sets 14.8 Dynamical characterisations of fractal sets 14.9 Lyapunov exponents 14.10 Ideas and references to the literature 15 Hamiltonian systems 15.1 Introduction 15.2 A nonlinear example with two degrees of freedom 15.3 Birkhoff-normalisation 15.4 The phenomenon of recurrence 15.5 Periodic solutions 15.6 Invariant tori and chaos 15.7 The KAM theorem 15.8 Exercises Appendix 1: The Morse lemma Appendix 2: Linear periodic equations with a small parameter Appendix 3: Trigonometric formulas and averages Appendix 4: A sketch of Cotton's proof of the stable and unstable manifold theorem 3.3 Appendix 5: Bifurcations of self-excited oscillations Appendix 6: Normal forms of Hamiltonian systems near equilibria Answers and hints to the exercises References N2 - On the subject of differential equations many elementary books have been written. This book bridges the gap between elementary courses and research literature. The basic concepts necessary to study differential equations - critical points and equilibrium, periodic solutions, invariant sets and invariant manifolds - are discussed first. Stability theory is then developed starting with linearisation methods going back to Lyapunov and Poincaré. In the last four chapters more advanced topics like relaxation oscillations, bifurcation theory, chaos in mappings and differential equations, Hamiltonian systems are introduced, leading up to the frontiers of current research: thus the reader can start to work on open research problems, after studying this book. This new edition contains an extensive analysis of fractal sets with dynamical aspects like the correlation- and information dimension. In Hamiltonian systems, topics like Birkhoff normal forms and the Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem on periodic solutions have been added. There are now 6 appendices with new material on invariant manifolds, bifurcation of strongly nonlinear self-excited systems and normal forms of Hamiltonian systems. The subject material is presented from both the qualitative and the quantitative point of view, and is illustrated by many examples ER -