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Periodic motions in the Fermi—Ulam model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2008

Mei-Yue Jiang
Affiliation:
LMAM, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China (mjiang@math.pku.edu.cn)

Abstract

We consider the periodic solutions of the equation

satisfying −1 ≤ x ≤ 1 ẋ(t) = −ẋ(t+) if x(t) = ±1, where f is a continuous function, periodic in t. A sequence of periodic solutions is obtained via the variational method.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2008

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