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November 2019, 12(7): 2127-2141. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019137
On periodic solutions in the Whitney's inverted pendulum problem
Roman Srzednicki
Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, ul. Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
Received November 2017 Revised April 2018 Published December 2018
Fund Project: This research is partially supported by the Polish National Science Center under Grant No. 2014/14/A/ST1/00453
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In the book "What is Mathematics?" Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins presented a solution of a Whitney's problem of an inverted pendulum on a railway carriage moving on a straight line. Since the appearance of the book in 1941 the solution was contested by several distinguished mathematicians. The first formal proof based on the idea of Courant and Robbins was published by Ivan Polekhin in 2014. Polekhin also proved a theorem on the existence of a periodic solution of the problem provided the movement of the carriage on the line is periodic. In the present paper we slightly improve the Polekhin's theorem by lowering the regularity class of the motion and we prove a theorem on the existence of a periodic solution if the carriage moves periodically on the plane.
Keywords: Inverted pendulum, periodic solution, topological degree, Poincaré operator, bound set.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34C25; Secondary: 37B55, 70G40, 70K40.
Citation: Roman Srzednicki. On periodic solutions in the Whitney's inverted pendulum problem. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2019, 12 (7) : 2127-2141. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019137
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