Chaotic dynamics in a simple class of Hamiltonian systems with applications to a pendulum with variable length. (Q637039)

Chaotic dynamics are proved for the Poincaré map along the trajectories of the system equivalent to the equation \(x''+cx'+q(t)f(x)=0\), where \(q\) is a periodic function of constant sign. One theorem concerns the frictionless case, where \(c=0\), at the second one the friction is present (\(c\neq 0\)).