TY - JOUR
T1 - Stability of Elliptic Periodic Points with an Application to Lagrangian Equilibrium Solutions
AU - Hua, Yongxia
AU - Xia, Zhihong
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author is supported by NSFC(N0.11126221), HIT.NSRIF.2011076; Both authors are supported in part by National Science Foundation.
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - We study the stability of elliptic rest points and periodic points of Hamiltonian systems of two degrees of freedom. We try to understand to what extent the linear stability would imply nonlinear stability. In case of one and one half degrees of freedom, linear stability, most of the times, do imply nonlinear stability provided that certain conditions on the eigenvalues are satisfied. This is a result of Herman. However, this is no longer the case for two degrees of freedom. We will analyse this case and it turns out that we can still say a lot about the nonlinear stability even in this case. As an example, we consider the Lagrange solutions (L4 and L5) of circular restricted three body problem. For certain mass ratios of the primaries, the Lagrangian solution is elliptic and the high order term in the normal form is non-degenerate, and therefore the Lagrangian point is stable from the standard KAM theory. However, there is one particular value, famously named μ0, where the fourth order term in the normal form happens to be degenerate. We will apply our result to this case.
AB - We study the stability of elliptic rest points and periodic points of Hamiltonian systems of two degrees of freedom. We try to understand to what extent the linear stability would imply nonlinear stability. In case of one and one half degrees of freedom, linear stability, most of the times, do imply nonlinear stability provided that certain conditions on the eigenvalues are satisfied. This is a result of Herman. However, this is no longer the case for two degrees of freedom. We will analyse this case and it turns out that we can still say a lot about the nonlinear stability even in this case. As an example, we consider the Lagrange solutions (L4 and L5) of circular restricted three body problem. For certain mass ratios of the primaries, the Lagrangian solution is elliptic and the high order term in the normal form is non-degenerate, and therefore the Lagrangian point is stable from the standard KAM theory. However, there is one particular value, famously named μ0, where the fourth order term in the normal form happens to be degenerate. We will apply our result to this case.
KW - KAM theory
KW - Restricted Three Body Problem
KW - Stability
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U2 - 10.1007/s12346-012-0093-x
DO - 10.1007/s12346-012-0093-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875975638
SN - 1575-5460
VL - 12
SP - 243
EP - 253
JO - Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems
JF - Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems
IS - 1
ER -