Discretization of second-order variational systems

Fečkan, Michal

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1993-1132410-8

Discretization of second-order variational systems
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 117 (1993), 575-581 Request permission

Abstract:

The existence of periodic orbits of the discretization of second-order variational systems is studied both for varying step of discretization and for a fixed small one.

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