This book is dedicated to study the inverse problem of ordinary differential equations, that is it focuses in finding all ordinary differential equations that satisfy a given set of properties. The Nambu bracket is the central tool in developing this approach. The authors start characterizing the ordinary differential equations in R^N which have a given set of partial integrals or first integrals. The results obtained are applied first to planar polynomial differential systems with a given set of such integrals, second to solve the 16th Hilbert problem restricted to generic algebraic limit cycles, third for solving the inverse problem for constrained Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanical systems, fourth for studying the integrability of a constrained rigid body. Finally the authors conclude with an analysis on nonholonomic mechanics, a generalization of the Hamiltonian principle, and the statement an solution of the inverse problem in vakonomic mechanics.

Solves the 16th Hilbert problem (restricted to algebraic limit cycles) based on generic assumptions Presents a detailed analysis of transpositional relations, a generalization of the Hamiltonian principle Features the Nambu bracket as central tool in the authors' approach on solving inverse problems in ODEs

Autorentext

FREDDY DUMORTIER is full professor at Hasselt University (Belgium), and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He was a long-term visitor at different important universities and research institutes. He is the author of many papers and his main results deal with singularities and their unfolding, singular perturbations, Lienard equations and Hilbert's 16th problem. JAUME LLIBRE is full professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), he is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. He was a long term visitor at different important universities and research institutes. He is the author of many papers and had a large number of Ph. D. students. His main results deal with periodic orbits, topological entropy, polynomial vector fields, Hamiltonian systems and celestial mechanics. JOAN C. ARTES is professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). His main results deal with polynomial vector fields, more concretely quadratic ones. He programmed, some 20 years ago, the first version of P4 (only for quadratic systems) from which the program P4 was developed with the help of Chris Herssens and Peter De Maesschalck.

Inhalt

Preface.- 1.Differential Equations with Given Partial and First Integrals.- 2.Polynomial Vector Fields with Given Partial and First Integrals.- 3.16th Hilbert Problem for Algebraic Limit Cycles.- 4.Inverse Problem for Constrained Lagrangian Systems.- 5.Inverse Problem for Constrained Hamiltonian Systems.- 6.Integrability of the Constrained Rigid Body.- 7.Inverse Problem in the Vakonomic Mechanics.- Index.- Bibliography.