On periodic solutions in the Whitney's inverted pendulum problem

DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2019137zbMATH Open1419.70012arXiv1709.08254OpenAlexW2963953398WikidataQ128663279 ScholiaQ128663279MaRDI QIDQ2321760FDOQ2321760

Authors: Roman Srzednicki 

Publication date: 23 August 2019

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the book `What is Mathematics?' Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins presented a solution of a Whitney's problem of an inverted pendulum on a railway carriage moving on a straight line. Since the appearance of the book in 1941 the solution was contested by several distinguished mathematicians. The first formal proof based on the idea of Courant and Robbins was published by Ivan Polekhin in 2014. Polekhin also proved a theorem on the existence of a periodic solution of the problem provided the movement of the carriage on the line is periodic. In the present paper we slightly improve the Polekhin's theorem by lowering the regularity class of the motion and we prove a theorem on the existence of a periodic solution if the carriage moves periodically on the plane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08254

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic solutiontopological degreeinverted pendulumbound setPoincaré operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Topological dynamics of nonautonomous systems (37B55) Forced motions for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K40) Topological and differential topological methods for problems in mechanics (70G40)

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