Stability for quasi-periodically perturbed Hill's equations

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Abstract

We consider a perturbed Hill's equation of the form ϕ¨+(p0(t)+εp1(t))ϕ=0\ddot ϕ+ (p_{0}(t) + εp_{1}(t)) ϕ= 0, where p0p_{0} is real analytic and periodic, p1p_{1} is real analytic and quasi-periodic and $\eps$ is a ``small'' real parameter. Assuming Diophantine conditions on the frequencies of the decoupled system, i.e. the frequencies of the external potentials p0p_{0} and p1p_{1} and the proper frequency of the unperturbed (ε=0ε=0) Hill's equation, but without making non-degeneracy assumptions on the perturbing potential p1p_{1}, we prove that quasi-periodic solutions of the unperturbed equation can be continued into quasi-periodic solutions if εε lies in a Cantor set of relatively large measure in [−ε0,ε0][-ε_0,ε_0], where ε0ε_0 is small enough. Our method is based on a resummation procedure of a formal Lindstedt series obtained as a solution of a generalized Riccati equation associated to Hill's problem.

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