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Periodic oscillations of forced pendulums with very small length*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Alessandro Fonda  and
Fabio Zanolin
Alessandro Fonda
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Università di Trieste, P.le Europa 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Fabio Zanolin
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
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Abstract

We prove the existence of an arbitrarily large number of periodic solutions for a class of nonlinear differential equations generalising the dynamics of a forced pendulum with small length.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 127 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 67 - 76
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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