On normal modes in classical Hamiltonian systems

DOI10.1016/0020-7462(83)90018-5MaRDI QIDQ1052115zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Embrecht W. C. Van Groesen

Publication date 1983

Published in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

constraining total kinetic energy functionalLagrange multiplierlarge manifold of energy bifurcationsn degrees of freedomnormal modes in one-to-one correspondence with critical pointspotential continuously differentiable even function monotonically increasing on rays through originpotential energy has fixed valuevariational characterization for solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Modal analysis in linear vibration theory (70J10) Nonlinear resonances for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K30)

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• On a Lagrangean action based kinetic instability theorem of Kelvin and Tait
• On small period, large amplitude normal modes of natural Hamiltonian systems

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