Perturbation methods and the Melnikov functions for slowly varying oscillators
A new approach based on the Lindstedt-Poincaré method is proposed to obtain the Melnikov function for homoclinic orbits in slowly varying oscillators. The goal of the authors is to show that without dealing explicitly with the complicated geometry related to the three-dimensional distance measured in a Poincaré section, the same Melnikov function can be derived by using the Lindstedt-Poincaré method.
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2188098