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−+ −+ −+xf xf x
2
00
11 22
( ) ( ) ...tεε
.
(24.1.78')
Equating to zero the coefficients of the powers of the small parameters, we obtain the
system of differential equations
===xfxxfxxfx
00
11 22
(), (), ()
,...;
(24.1.78'')
integrating this system, the searched solution is given by the expansion (24.1.79).
The problem is put to use a finite number of terms in the above expansion into series
so as to can obtain a solution with a sufficiently small error; indeed, one cannot always
truncate these expansions, because there can appear – in the solution – some terms
which tend to infinite for
→∞t . The terms are called secular terms in problems of
celestial mechanics, and one tries to eliminate them; the solution can be used, in this
case, only in a certain finite interval of time. Lindstedt succeeded to eliminate them in
various stages of calculation, searching periodic solutions and remaining, essentially, in
the frame of the perturbations method (see Sect. 24.3.1.3).
An evaluation of the difference between the exact solution and a truncated one,
obtained by the perturbations method, is given by the
Theorem 24.1.10 Let be the differential equation
21
0
12
(; ) (; ) (; ) ... (; ) (; , ), ,
mm n
m
tt t t tεε ε ε
+
=+ + ++ + ∈
xf x f x f x f x Rx xε
(24.1.80)
with the initial conditions
00 0
() , | |ttth=−≤xx , for which:
(i)
( ; ), 0,1,2,...,
i
ti m=fx , are functions continuous in t and x , −+1mi times
differentiable and Lipschitzian with respect to
x ;
(ii)
Rx(; , )t ε is a continuous and bounded function in ,t x and ε .
In this case, the solution
=+ + ++xx x x x
2
0
12
() () () () ... ()
m
m
tt t t tεε ε,
(24.1.80')
obtained by integrating the differential equations
=== =xfxxfxxfx x f x
00
11 22
( ; ), ( ; ), ( ; ),..., ( ; )
mm
ttt t
,
(24.1.80'')
with the initial conditions
00 0 0
( ) , ( ) , 1,2,...,
i
ttim===0xxx , represents an
approximation with an error given by
()
+
⎡⎤
−++ ++ =
⎣⎦
xx x x x
21
0
12
() () () () ... ()
mm
m
ttt t tεε ε εO .
(24.1.80''')
24.1.2.7 The Averaging Method. The Van der Pol Plane
Let be the system of non-autonomous non-linear differential equations
0
() () (; ), , (0)
n
tt tε=+ ∈ =
xAxfxx x x,
(24.1.81)