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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0713.00021.] The qualitative methods of the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems are used to design and optimize the layout of magnets in a circular synchrotron particle accelerator. The problem is cast into the discussion of a system of inhomogeneous oscillator equations with source (driving) terms where these are defined by the structure of the magnets in question. Theorems are demonstrated concerning the effect of these terms upon machine design orbit. A formula is given for the length of a drift space that follows a superconducting dipole magnet with a sextupolar magnetic field in order to optimize the limit of stability for oscillations of the beam of particles in the directions transversal to the design orbit. This is done through the Poincaré map associated to the equations of motion, and by simple topological considerations about the conservative Hénon map taken from a previous paper of the second author [see: CERN SPS 88-47].