Abstract:
We introduce new Lyapunov characteristics for the oscillation and wandering
of solutions of linear differential equations or systems, namely, the frequency
of a solution (the mean number of zeros on the time axis), of some coordinate
of the solution, or of all possible linear combinations of these coordinates, and
also the mean angular velocity of the rotation of a solution (about the origin
in the phase space) and various wandering exponents (derived from the mean
angular velocity). We shall show that the sets of values of all these quantities
on the solutions of a linear autonomous system coincide with the set of absolute
values of the imaginary parts of eigenvalues of the matrix of the system.
We shall see that the frequencies of solutions are bounded above by their
wandering exponents, and the frequencies and wandering exponents of all
solutions of an arbitrary second-order equation coincide.
Keywords:differential equation, linear system, zeros of solutions,
oscillation and wandering, Lyapunov exponent.