On the small-amplitude approximation to the differential equation x+(1+ x^2)x=0

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2010.03.127MaRDI QIDQ984349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Francisco M. Fernández

Publication date 19 July 2010

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3505

zbMATH Keywords

radius of convergencenonlinear oscillatorsmall-amplitude approximationinverted perturbation seriestime-dependent frequency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25)

Abstract: We obtain the radius of convergence of the small--amplitude approximation to the period of the nonlinear oscillator $ddotx+(1+dot{x}^2)x=0$ with the initial conditions $x(0)=A$ and $dotx(0)=0$ and show that the inverted perturbation series appears to converge smoothly from below.

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