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Asymptotic development of an integral operator and boundedness of the criticality of potential centers
We study the asymptotic development at infinity of an integral operator. We
use this development to give sufficient conditions in order to upper bound the
number of critical periodic orbits that bifurcate from the outer boundary of
the period function of planar potential centers. We apply the main results to
two different families: the power-like potential family ,
, ; and the family of dehomogenized Loud's centers.Comment: 33 pages
The monotonicity of the apsidal angle using the theory of potential oscillators
In a central force system the angle between two successive passages of a body
through pericenters is called the apsidal angle. In this paper we prove that
for central forces of the form with
the apsidal angle is a monotonous function of the energy, or
equivalently of the orbital eccentricity.Comment: 4 page
On the upper bound of the criticality of potential systems at the outer boundary using the Roussarie-Ecalle compensator
This paper is concerned with the study of the criticality of families of
planar centers. More precisely, we study sufficient conditions to bound the
number of critical periodic orbits that bifurcate from the outer boundary of
the period annulus of potential centers. In the recent years, the new approach
of embedding the derivative of the period function into a collection of
functions that form a Chebyshev system near the outer boundary has shown to be
fruitful in this issue. In this work, we tackle with a remaining case that was
not taken into account in the previous studies in which the Roussarie-Ecalle
compensator plays an essential role. The theoretical results we develop are
applied to study the bifurcation diagram of the period function of two
different families of centers: the power-like family ,
with ; and the family of dehomogenized Loud's centers.Comment: 4 figure
Periodic oscillators, isochronous centers and resonance
An oscillator is called isochronous if all motions have a common period. When
the system is forced by a time-dependent perturbation with the same period the
dynamics may change and the phenomenon of resonance can appear. In this
context, resonance means that all solutions are unbounded. The theory of
resonance is well known for the harmonic oscillator and we extend it to
nonlinear isochronous oscillators.Comment: 28 page
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