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Can a periodically additively perturbed sinusoidal vector field on the circle have a stable periodic orbit of higher least period?
I have heard that differential equations on $\mathbb{S}^1$ of the form
\begin{equation} \hspace{40mm} \dot{\theta}(t) \ = \ A\sin(\theta(t)) + g(t) \hspace{4mm} \mathrm{mod} \ 2\pi, \hspace{40mm} (1) \...
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The integral of torsion
I found the following * exercise (exercise *9) in page 407 of the book of do Carmo "Differential geometry of curves and surfaces". This problem is a classical theorem which is referenced ...