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Stability of trajectories from Poincaré to Birkhoff: approaching a qualitative definition (English)
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3 June 2011
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During the 1880s, Henri Poincaré developed a qualitative approach to the study of solutions of differential equations. In this article the author studies the subsequent evolution of the concept and the meaning of the word ``qualitative'' in this connection. In particular, she discusses Birkhoff's criticism of Poincare's definition, sketches the contributions of Lyapunov and Levi-Civita, and proposes ``a clear criterion for distinguishing qualitative and quantitative approaches to stability''. The clearly written article is complemented by an extensive list of references.
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differential equations
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stability
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qualitative solutions
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three-body problem
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Poincaré
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