Quasi-Periodic solutions for conformally symplectic dynamical systems

Series
CDSNS Colloquium
Time
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 4:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 06
Speaker
Renato Calleja – Georgia Tech and ITAM
Organizer
Renato Calleja
Conformally symplectic systems send a symplectic form into a multiple of itself. They appear in mecanical systems with friction proportional to the velocity and as Euler-Lagrange equations of the time discounted actions common in economics. The conformaly symplectic structure provides identities that we use to prove "a-posteriori" theorems that show that if we have an approximate solution which satisfies some non-degeneracy conditions, we can obtain a true solution close to the approximate one. The identities used to prove the theorem, also lead to very efficient algorithms with small storage and operation counts. We will also present implementations of the algorithms.