Hill's equation with small fluctuations: cycle to cycle variations and stochastic processes
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Abstract: Hill's equations arise in a wide variety of physical problems, and are specified by a natural frequency, a periodic forcing function, and a forcing strength parameter. This classic problem is generalized here in two ways: [A] to Random Hill's equations which allow the forcing strength q_k, the oscillation frequency lambda_k, and the period au_k of the forcing function to vary from cycle to cycle, and [B] to Stochastic Hill's equations which contain (at least) one additional term that is a stochastic process xi. This paper considers both random and stochastic Hill's equations with small parameter variations, so that p_k=q_k-<q_k>, ell_k=lambda_k-<lambda_k>, and xi are all O(epsilon), where epsilon<<1. We show that random Hill's equations and stochastic Hill's equations have the same growth rates when the parameter variations p_k and ell_k obey certain constraints given in terms of the moments of xi. For random Hill's equations, the growth rates for the solutions are given by the growth rates of a matrix transformation, under matrix multiplication, where the matrix elements vary from cycle to cycle. Unlike classic Hill's equations where the parameter space (the lambda-q plane) displays bands of stable solutions interlaced with bands of unstable solutions, random Hill's equations are generically unstable. We find analytic approximations for the growth rates of the instability; for the regime where Hill's equation is classically stable, and the parameter variations are small, the growth rate gamma = O(epsilon^2). Using the relationship between the (ell_k,p_k) and the xi, this result for gamma can be used to find growth rates for stochastic Hill's equations.
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