Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics

Table of Contents - 1996 - Volume 126, Issue 03  

Research Article

Singularly perturbed ordinary differential equations with dynamic limits

Zvi Artsteina1 and Alexander Vigodnera1

a1 Department of Theoretical Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Coupled slow and fast motions generated by ordinary differential equations are examined. The qualitative limit behaviour of the trajectories as the small parameter tends to zero is sought after. Invariant measures of the parametrised fast flow are employed to describe the limit behaviour, rather than algebraic equations which are used in the standard reduced order approach. In the case of a unique invariant measure for each parameter, the limit of the slow motion is governed by a chattering type equation. Without the uniqueness, the limit of the slow motion solves a differential inclusion. The fast flow, in turn, converges in a statistical sense to the direct integral, respectively the set-valued direct integral, of the invariant measures.

(Received July 29 1994)

(Revised January 04 1995)