Abstract

In this paper we study conservative systems describing the motion of a particle on the line in the field of potential force with additional quasiperiodic time-dependence.

We show that the superquadratic growth of the potential at infinity results in the near-integrability of the Hamiltonian system in question (for a large class of potentials), despite the fact that no smallness assumptions are made on the quasiperiodic dependence of the potential on time. As a consequence all the solutions of such systems are bounded for all time.

Some specific examples are given, together with a counterexample shich shows that, without the quasiperiodicity assumption, the boundedness breaks down.


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