The first instability interval for Hill equations with symmetric single well potentials
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- by Min-Jei Huang
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 775-778
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03705-2
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Abstract:
For Hill equations with symmetric single well (or symmetric single barrier) potentials, the first instability interval is absent when and only when the potential is constant.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Min-Jei Huang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30043
- Email: mjhuang@math.nthu.edu.tw
- Received by editor(s): July 10, 1995
- Communicated by: Palle E. T. Jorgensen
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 775-778
- MSC (1991): Primary 34B30, 34L15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03705-2
- MathSciNet review: 1363425