14 research outputs found
Summation of divergent series and Borel summability for strongly dissipative equations with periodic or quasi-periodic forcing terms
We consider a class of second order ordinary differential equations
describing one-dimensional systems with a quasi-periodic analytic forcing term
and in the presence of damping. As a physical application one can think of a
resistor-inductor-varactor circuit with a periodic (or quasi-periodic) forcing
function, even if the range of applicability of the theory is much wider. In
the limit of large damping we look for quasi-periodic solutions which have the
same frequency vector of the forcing term, and we study their analyticity
properties in the inverse of the damping coefficient. We find that already the
case of periodic forcing terms is non-trivial, as the solution is not analytic
in a neighbourhood of the origin: it turns out to be Borel-summable. In the
case of quasi-periodic forcing terms we need Renormalization Group techniques
in order to control the small divisors arising in the perturbation series. We
show the existence of a summation criterion of the series in this case also,
but, however, this can not be interpreted as Borel summability.Comment: 24 pages, 16 figure
Globally and locally attractive solutions for quasi-periodically forced systems
We consider a class of differential equations, x + yx + g(x) = f(omega t), with omega is an element of R-d, describing one-dimensional dissipative systems subject to a periodic or quasi-periodic (Diophantine) forcing. We study existence and properties of trajectories with the same quasi-periodicity as the forcing. For g(x) = x(2p+1), p is an element of N, we show that, when the dissipation coefficient is large enough, there is only one such trajectory and that it describes a global attractor. In the case of more general nonlinearities, including g(x) = x(2) (describing the varactor equation), we find that there is at least one trajectory which describes a local attractor