Friday, 27 February 2009

ds.dynamical systems - Linearization at equilibrium points

As Victor says:



I am confident that the system
$$ x' = -y + ( x^2 + y^2) x, $$
$$ y' = x + ( x^2 + y^2) y $$
has the origin repelling nearby trajectories, while
$$ x' = -y - ( x^2 + y^2) x, $$
$$ y' = x - ( x^2 + y^2) y $$
has the origin attracting nearby trajectories, and
$$ x' = -y $$
$$ y' = x $$
has just periodic orbits near the origin. But all three
linearize to the same thing at the origin,
$$
left( begin{array}{rr}
0 & -1 \
1 & 0
end{array}
right) .
$$
with eigenvalues $pm i.$



EDIT: Indeed, given a constant real number $lambda$ and system
$$ x' = -y + lambda ( x^2 + y^2) x, $$
$$ y' = x + lambda ( x^2 + y^2) y , $$
we find that
$$ frac{d}{dt} ; (x^2 + y^2) = 4 lambda (x^2 + y^2)^2. $$



EDIT some more: so, for the nonconstant paths, if we set time to $0$ when the trajectory crosses the unit circle, we get
$$ x^2 + y^2 = frac{1}{1 - 4 lambda t} $$
showing that when $lambda > 0$ the path reaches infinite radius in finite time, while with
$lambda < 0$ the path spirals in to the origin, as expected.
Then, if we set $$ x = r cos theta, ; y = r sin theta $$
as usual, the rate of change of $ theta $ does not depend on $ lambda $ and $ forall lambda,t$ we have
$$ frac{d theta}{d t} = 1. $$

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