Weak instability of Hamiltonian equilibria

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Authors Gaetano Zampieri

Publication date 3 March 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1334

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02) Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Stability problems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H14)

Abstract: This is an expository paper on Lyapunov stability of equilibria of autonomous Hamiltonian systems. Our aim is to clarify the concept of weak instability, namely instability without non-constant motions which have the equilibrium as limit point as time goes to minus infinity. This is done by means of some examples. In particular, we show that a weakly unstable equilibrium point can be stable for the linearized vector field.

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