On Littlewood's boundedness problem for relativistic oscillators with anharmonic potentials (Q462909): Difference between revisions

The authors consider the forced relativistic oscillator with anharmonic potential \[ \frac{d}{dt}\left(\frac{x'}{\sqrt{1-|x'|^2}}\right)+|x|^{\alpha-1}x=p(t), \] where \(p(t)\) is a periodic function and \(\alpha>0\). The main result states the boundedness of the solutions under the regularity condition \(p(t)\in C^5\). The proof relies on Moser's small twist theorem and gives as a by-product the existence of an infinite number of quasiperiodic solutions. If compared with the classical oscillator, the estimates must be obtained in a different way due to the linear growth at infinity of the relativistic kinetic energy. This technical difficulty is overcome by exchanging the role of the relativistic kinetic energy and the potential energy.