Stability boundaries of a Mathieu equation having \textit{PT} symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2019.07.003MaRDI QIDQ2232399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. A. Brandão

Publication date 5 October 2021

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04699

zbMATH Keywords

Mathieu equationmultiple-scale analysisparity-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30) Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D20) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: I have applied multiple-scale perturbation theory to a generalized complex $PT$-symmetric Mathieu equation in order to find the stability boundaries between bounded and unbounded solutions. The analysis suggests that the non-Hermitian parameter present in the equation can be used to control the shape and curvature of these boundaries. Although this was suggested earlier by several authors, analytic formulas for the boundary curves were not given. This paper is a first attempt to fill this gap in the theory.

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