A Remark on Rational Isochronous Potentials
Abstract
We consider the rational potentials of the one-dimensional mechanical systems, which have a family of periodic solutions with the same period (isochronous potentials). We prove that up to a shift and adding a constant all such potentials have the form $U(x) = 1/2 \omega^2 x^2$ or $U(x) = 1/8 \omega^2 x ^2 + c^2 x^{-2}.$
- Publication:
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Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- 2005
- DOI:
- 10.2991/jnmp.2005.12.s1.15
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math-ph/0409062
- Bibcode:
- 2005JNMP...12S.179C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Physics;
- 70H12
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, contribution to a special issue of JNMP dedicated to F. Calogero, slightly revised version