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Geometrical conditions for the stability of orbits in planar systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
Given a vector field X on the real plane, we study the influence of the curvature of the orbits of ẋ = X┴(x) in the stability of those of the system x˙ = X(x). We pay special attention to the case in which this curvature is negative in the whole plane. Under this assumption, we classify the possible critical points and give a criterion for a point to be globally asymptotically stable. In the general case, we also provide expressions for the first three derivatives of the Poincaré map associated to a periodic orbit in terms of geometrical quantities.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 120 , Issue 3 , October 1996 , pp. 499 - 519
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996
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