Roberto Castelli

2papers

2 Papers

DSDec 20, 2011
Rigorous numerics in Floquet theory: computing stable and unstable bundles of periodic orbits

Roberto Castelli, Jean-Philippe Lessard

In this paper, a new rigorous numerical method to compute fundamental matrix solutions of non-autonomous linear differential equations with periodic coefficients is introduced. Decomposing the fundamental matrix solutions $Φ(t)$ by their Floquet normal forms, that is as product of real periodic and exponential matrices $Φ(t)=Q(t)e^{Rt}$, one solves simultaneously for $R$ and for the Fourier coefficients of $Q$ via a fixed point argument in a suitable Banach space of rapidly decaying coefficients. As an application, the method is used to compute rigorously stable and unstable bundles of periodic orbits of vector fields. Examples are given in the context of the Lorenz equations and the $ζ^3$-model.

DSDec 21, 2011
A method to rigorously enclose eigendecompositions of interval matrices

Roberto Castelli, Jean-Philippe Lessard

In this paper, a rigorous computational method to enclose eigendecompositions of complex interval matrices is proposed. Each eigenpair $x=(λ,v)$ is found by solving a nonlinear equation of the form $f(x)=0$ via a contraction argument. The set-up of the method relies on the notion of radii polynomials, which provide an efficient mean of determining a domain on which the contraction mapping theorem is applicable.