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Notes on the computation of periodic orbits using Newton and Melnikov's method

Albert Granados
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These notes were written during the 9th and 10th sessions of the subject Dynamical Systems II coursed at DTU (Denmark) during the Winter Semester 2015-2016, and later extended in February 2017. They aim to provide students with a theoretical and numerical background for the computation of periodic orbits using Newton's method. We focus on periodically perturbed quasi-integrable systems (using the forced pendulum as an example) and hence we take advantage of the Melnikov method to get first guesses. However, these well known techniques are general enough to be applied in other type of systems. Periodic orbits are computed by solving a fixed-point equation for the stroboscopic map, which is very fast and precise. We also consider computing the Poincar\'e map and compare both strategies. In both cases we show how to compute the Jacobian of the maps, which is necessary for the Newton method, by means of variational equations and the implicit function theorem. Some exercises are proposed along the notes, whose solutions can be found in github.com/a-granados. The notes themselves do not contain any reference, although everything described here is well known in the Dynamical Systems community. A typical reference for the Melnikov method for subharmonic orbits is the book [GucHol83]. More about the variational equations and their numerical applications can be found in the notes [Sim].

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Albert Granados. 2016-10-11. Notes on the computation of periodic orbits using Newton and Melnikov's method. https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03363

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