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The stability analysis

First of all we remark that the second order Hamiltonian (34) is equivalent, by a canonical transformation, to the sum of two coupling harmonic oscillators having energies of opposite signs

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where

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This system has indefinite energy, but can be stable as was demonstrated in [15]. The important feature here is that the coupling is divergent at the transition line given by [11]

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Thus to obtain correct results according to experimental data near the transition line, this theory must be renormalized. A suitable renormalization may describes the reentrant phenomenon in the tex2html_wrap_inline1933 - C line boundary observed in [8].

The qualitative behavior of the non-linear system may be obtained from the linearized system at the equilibrium point tex2html_wrap_inline2181 , far from the transition line, that is for

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or

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The Taylor expansion of (34) at tex2html_wrap_inline2181 up second order, gives the Hamiltonian

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The linearized Hamilton's equation are

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and the matrix corresponding the Hamiltonian vector field is:

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The stability condition for tex2html_wrap_inline2195 is given by

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that is,

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The eigenvalues of tex2html_wrap_inline2195 are obtained from characteristic polynomial

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whose roots are

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Thus, far from the transition line, the solution of the linearized system of differential equation is just a helix

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with frequency

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for

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and

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for

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Finally at tex2html_wrap_inline2145 the solution is also an helix with frequency given by

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Kleber Mundim
Wed Jul 16 04:45:35 CDT 1997