The renormalization group: A perturbation method for the graduate curriculum
The paper is concerned with the applications of the renormalization group (RG) method to second-order ordinary differential equations with small regular perturbation terms in the form \(\epsilon \dot{y}\) or \(\epsilon y^3\), where \(\epsilon\rightarrow 0^+\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe RG method develops a mathematical apparatus that allows a systematic and unified investigation of the changes of a physical system viewed at different distance scales. In this paper, that method is considered in the context of a linear oscillator model and the standard Duffing oscillator with cubic nonlinearity and provides closed-form expressions for the amplitude via the renormalized expansion. Finally, the relation of the RG method to the method of multiple scales is discussed and some open problems are raised.
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6069981