Heteroclinic orbits for a discrete pendulum equation

DOI10.1080/10236190903167991MaRDI QIDQ3093744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Huafeng Xiao, Jianshe Yu

Publication date 18 October 2011

Published in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5012

zbMATH Keywords

difference equationsequilibrium pointsheteroclinic solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Additive difference equations (39A10) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Free motion of a rigid body (70E15)

Abstract: About twenty years ago, Rabinowitz showed firstly that there exist heteroclinic orbits of autonomous Hamiltonian system joining two equilibria. A special case of autonomous Hamiltonian system is the classical pendulum equation. The phase plane analysis of pendulum equation shows the existence of heteroclinic orbits joining two equilibria, which coincide with the result of Rabinowitz. However, the phase plane of discrete pendulum equation is similar to that of the classical pendulum equation, which suggests the existence of heteroclinic orbits for discrete pendulum equation also. By using variational method and delicate analysis technique, we show that there indeed exist heteroclinic orbits of discrete pendulum equation joining every two adjacent points of $2kpi+pi:kinmathbbZ$.

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