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A remark on the multiplicity of monotone periodic orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

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Abstract

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We give a new proof of the fact that an area-preserving monotone twist map of the annulus with one p/q-periodic orbit on which the map preserves the ordering on the angular coordinate (i.e. Birkhoff or monotone periodic orbits) actually has a second such orbit distinct from the first.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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