Rigorous numerics in Floquet theory: computing stable and unstable bundles of periodic orbits
For researchers in dynamical systems, this provides a rigorous computational tool for stability analysis of periodic orbits, though the approach is incremental.
The paper introduces a rigorous numerical method for computing Floquet normal forms of periodic linear systems, enabling certified computation of stable and unstable bundles of periodic orbits. The method is demonstrated on the Lorenz equations and the ζ³-model.
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.