Abstract
<p style='text-indent:20px;'>The so-called method of phase synchronization has been advocated in a number of papers as a way of decoupling a system of linear second-order differential equations by a linear transformation of coordinates and velocities. This is a rather unusual approach because velocity-dependent transformations in general do not preserve the second-order character of differential equations. Moreover, at least in the case of linear transformations, such a velocity-dependent one defines by itself a second-order system, which need not have anything to do, in principle, with the given system or its reformulation. This aspect, and the related questions of compatibility it raises, seem to have been overlooked in the existing literature. The purpose of this paper is to clarify this issue and to suggest topics for further research in conjunction with the general theory of decoupling in a differential geometric context.</p>
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science,Applied Mathematics,Control and Optimization,Geometry and Topology,Mechanics of Materials
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