Earnshaw's theorem in electrostatics and a conditional converse to Dirichlet's theorem

DOI10.5802/slsedp.56zbMath1492.34033OpenAlexW2912030256MaRDI QIDQ2067252

Jeffrey Rauch

Publication date: 17 January 2022

Published in: Séminaire Laurent Schwartz. EDP et Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=SLSEDP_2013-2014____A12_0/

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium pointunstable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D20)

Related Items (1)

Instability of dielectrics and conductors in electrostatic fields

Cites Work

• Asymptotic solutions of equations of classical mechanics
• Asymptotic motions and the inversion of the Lagrange-Dirichlet theorem
• On the instability of equilibrium when the potential has a non-strict local minimum
• Stability for two dimensional analytic potentials
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• Die Umkehrung der Stabilitätssätze von Lagrange-Dirichlet und Routh. (The inversion of the stability theorems of Lagrange-Dirichlet and Routh.)
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