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Robert Israel
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I suspect there may be periodic solutions. For $A = 1$, numerically plotting the solution with initial conditions $x(0)=0, \dot{x}(0) = 0.442091320614410, \ddot{x}(0) = 0.774949154843236$ I get this:

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This looks to me like an approximation of an unstable periodic orbit.

Robert Israel
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