Paper 4, Section I,
Part II, 2009
Consider the two-dimensional dynamical system given in polar coordinates by
where is continuously differentiable and -periodic. Find a periodic orbit for and, using the hint or otherwise, compute the Floquet multipliers of in terms of . Explain why one of the Floquet multipliers is independent of . Give a sufficient condition for to be asymptotically stable.
Investigate the stability of and the dynamics of in the case .
[Hint: The determinant of the fundamental matrix satisfies