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The recursion formula

Substituting the series (5) into an m-th order differential equation results in a recursion formula for the coefficients tex2html_wrap_inline754 in terms of the m initial conditions. For a linear/nonlinear differential equation this recursion formula will be linear/nonlinear respectively.

In the case of the Duffing equation, the recursion formula is

displaymath758

  equation136

where the tex2html_wrap_inline760 are defined by

displaymath762

Nonlinearity enters the recursion formula (7) solely through the tex2html_wrap_inline760 .

We can now calculate the series for tex2html_wrap_inline744 , from which the ¶ map for Duffing's equation can be built up recursively.



D Jefferies
Tue Dec 1 04:32:46 GMT 1998