Chaos in the beam equation (Q1763790)

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    22 February 2005
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    The authors prove existence of infinitely many periodic as well as aperiodic bounded solutions to a slowly periodically perturbed damped beam equation. Assuming that the reduced four dimensional ordinary differential equation has a homoclinic orbit the authors prove that its chaotic dynamics (Smale's horseshoe) can be embedded into the dynamics of the original damped beam equation.
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    weak nonlinearities
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    periodically perturbed damped beam equation
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    homoclinic orbit
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    Smale's horseshoe
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