Linear stability in billiards with potential

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/11/1/010zbMATH Open0896.58029arXivchao-dyn/9612023OpenAlexW3098440245MaRDI QIDQ4381850FDOQ4381850

Authors: H. R. Dullin 

Publication date: 11 October 1998

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A general formula for the linearized Poincar'e map of a billiard with a potential is derived. The stability of periodic orbits is given by the trace of a product of matrices describing the piecewise free motion between reflections and the contributions from the reflections alone. For the case without potential this gives well known formulas. Four billiards with potentials for which the free motion is integrable are treated as examples: The linear gravitational potential, the constant magnetic field, the harmonic potential, and a billiard in a rotating frame of reference, imitating the restricted three body problem. The linear stability of periodic orbits with period one and two is analyzed with the help of stability diagrams, showing the essential parameter dependence of the residue of the periodic orbits for these examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9612023

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zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilityperiodic orbitslinearized Poincaré mapbilliards with potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Topological dynamics (37B99)

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