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Publications and source records attributed to J. M. Burgos.
We prove that total instability is a generic phenomenon in the real analytic class of electromagnetic Lagrangian systems under a weak magnetism hypothesis. The main object in the proof is an adaptation of the McGehee blowup for these systems. Together with this result, new criteria for total instability are introduced for both generic and non-generic cases.
We give for the first time a detailed proof of the Palamodov's total instability conjecture in Lagrangian dynamics. This proves an older related Lyapunov instability conjecture posed by Lyapunov and Arnold and reduces the Lagrange-Dirichlet converse problem in the class of real analytic potentials to the Lyapunov instability of non strict minimum critical points. It also proves the instability of charged rigid bodies under the presence of an external electrostatic field.
The rattleback or celt top is a rigid body with the peculiar behaviour of having a spontaneous spin reversion during its motion and this effect is usually attributed purely to its nonholonomic nature. Actually, the rattleback is the paradigmatic example in nonholonomic mechanics. We give an example of a spinning rigid body having spontaneous spin reversion during its motion in the context of holonomic mechanics.
In the context of mechanical Lagrangian dynamics, we prove a new Lyapunov instability criterion for a non strict local minimum equilibrium point of a smooth potential where the sufficient condition for instability is the existence of a smooth solution of a certain linear PDE derived from the mechanical Lagrangian governing the dynamics. In the presence of a magnetostatic field, we also give an additional sufficient condition for the motion of a charged particle to be Lyapunov unstable.