The Damped Mathieu Equation

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6-1993

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Abstract

We establish an asymptotic lower bound for the minimum excitation needed to cause instability for the damped Mathieu equation. The methods used are Floquet theory and Lyapunov-Schmidt, and we use a fact about the width of the instability interval for the undamped Mathieu equation. Our results are compared with published numerical data.

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First published in the Quarterly of Applied Mathematics in volume 51, issue 2, published by Brown University.

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