Variational Principle for Eigenvalue Problems of Hamiltonian Systems

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.77.2847MaRDI QIDQ4492370zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors M. Cristina Depassier, Rafael D. Benguria

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9605003

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationlarge amplitude oscillations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75)

Abstract: We consider the bifurcation problem $u^{″}+lambdau=N(u)$ with two point boundary conditions where $N(u)$ is a general nonlinear term which may also depend on the eigenvalue $lambda$. We give a variational characterization of the bifurcating branch $lambda$ as a function of the amplitude of the solution. As an application we show how it can be used to obtain simple approximate closed formulae for the period of large amplitude oscillations.

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