RESPONSE SOLUTIONS FOR QUASI-PERIODICALLY FORCED SYSTEMS WITH ARBITRARY NONLINEARITIES AND FREQUENCIES IN THE PRESENCE OF STRONG DISSIPATION

Abstract

We consider quasi-periodically systems in the presence of dissipation and study the ex istence of response solutions, i.e. quasi-periodic solutions with the same frequency vector as the forcing term. When the dissipation is large enough and a suitable function involving the forcing has a simple zero, response solutions are known to exist without assuming any non-resonance condition on the frequency vector. We analyse the case of non-simple zeroes and, in order to deal with the small divisors problem, we confine ourselves to two-dimensional frequency vectors, so as to use the prop erties of continued fractions. We show that, if the order of the zero is odd (if it is even, in general no response solution exists), a response solution still exists provided the inverse of the parameter measuring the dissipation belongs to a set given by the union of infinite intervals depending on the convergents of the ratio of the two components of the frequency vector. The intervals may be disjoint and as a consequence we obtain the existence of response solutions in a set with “holes”. If we want the set to be connected we have to require some non-resonance condition on the frequency: in fact, we need a condition weaker than the Bryuno condition usually considered in small divisors problems.