Closed orbits of fixed energy for a class of N-body problems
We elaborate a method allowing the determination of 0-1 matrices corresponding to dynamics of the interval having stable, 2k-periodic orbits, k belonging to N. By recurrence on the finite dimensional matrices, we establish the form of the infinite matrices (k --> ∞).
We prove some stability results for a certain class of periodic solutions of nonautonomous Hamiltonian systems in the case of Hamiltonian functions either with subquadratic growth or homogeneous with superquadratic growth. Thus we extend to the nonautonomous case some results recently established by the Authors for the autonomous case.