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MATHEMATICS
Proof of stability in the Brower–Paul problem
A. P. Ivanovab a Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
b National Engineering Physics Institute "MEPhI", Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
We study the stability of equilibrium in the problem known as “a ball on a rotating saddle”, which was first considered by the famous Dutch mathematician Brauer in 1918. He showed that, in the case of a smooth surface, the saddle point, unstable in the absence of rotation, can be stabilized in a certain range of angular velocities. Later, this system was considered by Bottema from a standpoint of bifurcation theory. The physical analogue of this problem is the Nobel Laureate Paul’s ion trap: here, the rotating solid support is replaced by a quadrupole with a periodically changing voltage and gravity is replaced by an electrostatic field. The stability conditions were obtained in a linear approximation, and their sufficiency has not yet been proven. In this paper, such a proof is carried out by methods of Hamiltonian mechanics.
Keywords:
ball on a rotating saddle, stability, KAM theory.
Citation:
A. P. Ivanov, “Proof of stability in the Brower–Paul problem”, Dokl. RAN. Math. Inf. Proc. Upr., 501 (2021), 42–45; Dokl. Math., 104:3 (2021), 351–354
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