Forced vibrations of wave equations with non-monotone nonlinearities
Periodic solutions of nonlinear wave equations with non-monotone forcing terms
Existence and regularity of periodic solutions of nonlinear, completely resonant, forced wave equations is proved for a large class of non-monotone forcing terms. Our approach is based on a variational Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction. The corresponding infinite dimensional bifurcation equation exhibits an intrinsic lack of compactness. This difficulty is overcome finding a-priori estimates for the constrained minimizers of the reduced action functional, through techniques inspired by regularity theory...
Nekhoroshev stability for the D’Alembert problem of Celestial Mechanics
The classical D’Alembert Hamiltonian model for a rotational oblate planet revolving near a «day-year» resonance around a fixed star on a Keplerian ellipse is considered. Notwithstanding the strong degeneracies of the model, stability results a là Nekhoroshev (i.e. for times which are exponentially long in the perturbative parameters) for the angular momentum of the planet hold.
Periodic orbits close to elliptic tori and applications to the three-body problem
We prove, under suitable non-resonance and non-degeneracy “twist” conditions, a Birkhoff-Lewis type result showing the existence of infinitely many periodic solutions, with larger and larger minimal period, accumulating onto elliptic invariant tori (of hamiltonian systems). We prove the applicability of this result to the spatial planetary three-body problem in the small eccentricity-inclination regime. Furthermore, we find other periodic orbits under some restrictions on the period and the masses...
KAM theory for the hamiltonian derivative wave equation
We prove an infinite dimensional KAM theorem which implies the existence of Cantor families of small-amplitude, reducible, elliptic, analytic, invariant tori of Hamiltonian derivative wave equations.
Optimal stability and instability results for a class of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems
We consider nearly integrable, non-isochronous, a-priori unstable Hamiltonian systems with a (trigonometric polynomial) -perturbation which does not preserve the unperturbed tori. We prove the existence of Arnold diffusion with diffusion time by a variational method which does not require the existence of «transition chains of tori» provided by KAM theory. We also prove that our estimate of the diffusion time is optimal as a consequence of a general stability result proved via classical perturbation...
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