(1) Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece;(2) University of Patras Artificial Intelligence Research Center (UPAIRC), GR-26500 Patras, Greeces
Abstract:
We present an improved method for locating periodic orbits of a dynamical system of arbitrary dimension. The method first employs the characteristic bisection method (CBM) to roughly locate a periodic orbit, followed by the quadratically convergent Newton method to rapidly refine its position. The method is applied to the physically interesting example of the two degrees of freedom photogravitational problem, and shown to surpass the CBM algorithm and Newton's method alone.