Stability for quasi-periodically perturbed Hill's equations (Q814909)

The authors consider the one-dimensional Hill equation with a quasi-periodic perturbation of the form \[ \ddot{\phi}+(p_0(t)+\varepsilon p_1(t))\phi=0, \] where \(p_0\) is real analytic and periodic, \(p_1\) is real analytic and quasi-periodic and \(\varepsilon \in \mathbb{R}\) is ``small''. Assuming Diophantine conditions on the frequencies of the decoupled system, i.e., the frequencies of the external potentials \(p_0\) and \(p_1\) and the proper frequency of the unperturbed (\(\varepsilon =0\)) Hill equation, but without making any assumptions on the perturbing potential \(p_1\) other than analyticity, the authors prove that quasi-periodic solutions of the unperturbed equation can be continued into quasi-periodic solutions if \(\varepsilon\) lies in a Cantor set of relatively large measure in \([-\varepsilon_0,\varepsilon_0]\subset \mathbb{R},\) where \(\varepsilon_0\) is small enough. The method used is based on a resummation procedure of a formal Lindstedt series obtained as a solution of a generalized Riccati equation associated to Hill's problem.