The reducibility of quasi-periodic linear Hamiltonian systems and its application to Hill's equation

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the reducibility of the quasi-periodic linear Hamiltonian system $$\dot{x}=(A+\epsilon Q(t))x,$$ where $A$ is a constant matrix with possible multiple eigenvalues, $Q(t)$ is analytic quasi-periodic with respect to $t$, and $\epsilon$ is a sufficiently small parameter. Under some non-resonant conditions, it is proved that, for most sufficiently small $\epsilon$, the Hamiltonian system can be reduced to a constant coefficient Hamiltonian system by means of a quasi-periodic symplectic change of variables with the same basic frequencies as $Q(t)$. Application to quasi-periodic Hill's equation is also given.

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